Castle Rackrent and Ennui by Maria Edgeworth, Marilyn Butler

Castle Rackrent and Ennui

Maria Edgeworth, Marilyn Butler

368 pages first pub 1809 (editions)

fiction classics challenging reflective slow-paced

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Thady Quirk, devoted steward to the decaying estate of the Rackrent family, narrates a riotous story of four generations of a dying dynasty in Castle Rackrent (1800). Thady will defend his masters to the end, but eventually his naivety and blind l...

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