Author: Maria Edgeworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Castle Rackrent
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Castle Rackrent
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
In eighteenth-century Ireland, a privileged class of Anglo-Irish landowners known as the “Protestant Ascendancy” lived on great estates, with the mostly-Catholic Irish as their tenants and servants. Maria Edgeworth was part of this Anglo-Irish aristocracy. Castle Rackrent, her best known novel, satirizes the failures and follies of her Anglo-Irish peers, their mismanagement of their estates, and their abuse of their Irish tenants. The narrator of Castle Rackrent is Thady Quirk, whose family has served on the Rackrent estate for generations. Thady relates the life stories of four successive lords of Castle Rackrent and how their individual character and personality affect the lives and families that depend on them. Castle Rackrent was one of the first historical novels written in English, and Walter Scott later cited it as inspiration for his own Scottish historical novels. Edgeworth included two sets of explanatory notes on aspects of Irish life and culture for her English readers, footnotes in the main text and a “glossary” added in the second edition. These have been merged into a single set of endnotes in this Standard Ebooks edition. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
In eighteenth-century Ireland, a privileged class of Anglo-Irish landowners known as the “Protestant Ascendancy” lived on great estates, with the mostly-Catholic Irish as their tenants and servants. Maria Edgeworth was part of this Anglo-Irish aristocracy. Castle Rackrent, her best known novel, satirizes the failures and follies of her Anglo-Irish peers, their mismanagement of their estates, and their abuse of their Irish tenants. The narrator of Castle Rackrent is Thady Quirk, whose family has served on the Rackrent estate for generations. Thady relates the life stories of four successive lords of Castle Rackrent and how their individual character and personality affect the lives and families that depend on them. Castle Rackrent was one of the first historical novels written in English, and Walter Scott later cited it as inspiration for his own Scottish historical novels. Edgeworth included two sets of explanatory notes on aspects of Irish life and culture for her English readers, footnotes in the main text and a “glossary” added in the second edition. These have been merged into a single set of endnotes in this Standard Ebooks edition. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Castle Rackrent
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Castle Rackrent
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734051843
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734051843
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
Castle Rackrent and The Absentee
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Thady Quirk, steward to the decaying estate of the Rackrent family, narrates a story of four generations of a dying dynasty in Castle Rackrent. This volume also includes Ennui, the entertaining confessions of the Earl of Glenthorn, a bored aristocrat. Both novels offer a darkly comic and satirical expose of the Irish class system.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Thady Quirk, steward to the decaying estate of the Rackrent family, narrates a story of four generations of a dying dynasty in Castle Rackrent. This volume also includes Ennui, the entertaining confessions of the Earl of Glenthorn, a bored aristocrat. Both novels offer a darkly comic and satirical expose of the Irish class system.
Castle Rackrent & The Absentee
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian tale ... The second edition. [By Maria Edgeworth.]
Author: CASTLE RACKRENT.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Castle Rackrent
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393922417
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The only edition of this 1800 novel--widely regarded as the first historical novel--to include supporting materials on both the importance of Maria Edgeworth as a writer and the influence of contemporary history on this novel.
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393922417
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The only edition of this 1800 novel--widely regarded as the first historical novel--to include supporting materials on both the importance of Maria Edgeworth as a writer and the influence of contemporary history on this novel.
Castle Rackrent ; An Essay on Irish Bulls ; an Essay on the Noble Science of Self-justification
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian Tale
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description