Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
"Castle Rackrent" by Maria Edgeworth is a short novel published in 1800. Through the eyes of family steward Thady Quirk, the story chronicles four generations of Rackrent heirs who sequentially mismanage their Irish estate through gambling, litigation, cruelty, and improvidence. Widely regarded as groundbreaking, this satirical work is considered the first historical novel, the first regional novel in English, and the first to feature an unreliable narrator. It inspired Sir Walter Scott's
Waverley series and earned praise from William Butler Yeats as "one of the most inspired chronicles written in English." (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849 |
|---|---|
| Author of introduction, etc. | Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919 |
| Title | Castle Rackrent |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Rackrent |
| Credits | An Anonymous Volunteer and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 65.9 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Domestic fiction |
| Subject | Landlord and tenant -- Fiction |
| Subject | Poor families -- Fiction |
| Subject | Pastoral fiction |
| Subject | Ireland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction |
| Subject | Ireland -- Fiction |
| Subject | Landowners -- Fiction |
| Subject | Rich people -- Fiction |
| Subject | Rural conditions -- Fiction |
| Subject | Administration of estates -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 1424 |
| Release Date | Feb 19, 2006 |
| Most Recently Updated | Nov 28, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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