TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edgeworth,Maria
AU  - Ritchie,Anne Thackeray
TI  - Castle Rackrent
AV  - PR 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Landlord and tenant -- Fiction
KW  - Poor families -- Fiction
KW  - Pastoral fiction
KW  - Ireland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
KW  - Ireland -- Fiction
KW  - Landowners -- Fiction
KW  - Rich people -- Fiction
KW  - Rural conditions -- Fiction
KW  - Administration of estates -- Fiction
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Rackrent; Release date is 2006-02-19; An Anonymous Volunteer and David Widger; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1424
ER  -