Maria Edgeworth

The Absentee is a novel by Maria Edgeworth, published in 1812 in Tales of Fashionable Life, that expresses the systemic evils of the absentee landlord class of Anglo-Irish and the desperate condition of the Irish peasantry. There are many turns of plot and much information about Ireland as well as Irish dialect and details of shallow London fashionable life, and the egregious results of the propertied classes treating their Irish

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Siendo solo un niño, Henry Ormond pierde a su madre y su padre lo abandona. Compadeciéndose de él, Ulick O'Shane, un irlandés acomodado, lo adopta y lo cría junto a su hijo Marcus. Ambos jóvenes se meten en muchos líos cuando llegan a la adolescencia pero, tras verse implicados en un tiroteo en el que casi muere un joven, y viendo que la esposa de O'Shane no lo quiere en su casa, Ormond se va a vivir con el primo rico de su tutor, alguien a...

Stylish, sceptical, cosmopolitan, heir to Swift's fantasy and wit, Maria Edgeworth's fiction explores the relations of England and Ireland at a time of historical crisis. Castle Rackrent is Irish family history vividly and unreliably narrated by the loyal servant Thady, steward on the decaying Rackrent estates. In this comic tour-de-force Maria Edgeworth anticipates great themes of the European novel - colonialism, class, master-servant relationships,...