by Maria Edgeworth · Oxford Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192816825
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«The Absentee» is the novel by Maria Edgeworth, published by Oxford Paperbacks in paperback (368 pages, in English).
Lord Colambre, son of Irish landowners settled in London, travels incognito to Ireland to review the family estates. There he finds corrupt agents, ruined tenants, and the effects of absenteeism. Edgeworth satirises the aristocracy and raises social responsibility, justice, and national identity.
Edition with introduction and notes by W.J. McCormack and Kim Walker, in the World's Classics series. Includes appendices with Maria Edgeworth's revisions and her notes on Burke's genius and style.
For readers of classic fiction and students of early nineteenth-century English and Irish literature.
Maria Edgeworth was an Anglo-Irish novelist of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held critical views on estate management, politics, and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo. During the first decade of the 19th century she was one of the most widely read novelists in Britain and Ireland. Her name today is most commonly associated with Castle Rackrent, her first novel, in which she, while Anglican herself, used the voice of an Irish Catholic character to narrate the dissipation and decline of a family from her own landed Anglo-Irish class.
