The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth, Heidi Thomson

320 pages first pub 1812 (editions)

fiction classics reflective slow-paced

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Lord Colambre, the sensitive hero of the novel, finds that his mother Lady Clonbrony's attempts to buy her way into the high society of London are only ridiculed, while his father, Lord Clonbrony, is in serious debt as a result of his wife's lifes...

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