02056cam a22004333u 4500 1424 UtSlPG 20260610133044.0 m cr n 260607r2006||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PR Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849 Castle Rackrent Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2006 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Rackrent Release date is 2006-02-19 An Anonymous Volunteer and David Widger "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.) Original publication data not identified Domestic fiction Landlord and tenant -- Fiction Poor families -- Fiction Pastoral fiction Ireland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Ireland -- Fiction Landowners -- Fiction Rich people -- Fiction Rural conditions -- Fiction Administration of estates -- Fiction Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1424 43540 43540