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100 1 _aEdgeworth, Maria,
_d1768-1849
245 1 0 _aCastle Rackrent
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2006
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Rackrent
500 _aRelease date is 2006-02-19
508 _aAn Anonymous Volunteer and David Widger
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aDomestic fiction
653 _aLandlord and tenant -- Fiction
653 _aPoor families -- Fiction
653 _aPastoral fiction
653 _aIreland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
653 _aIreland -- Fiction
653 _aLandowners -- Fiction
653 _aRich people -- Fiction
653 _aRural conditions -- Fiction
653 _aAdministration of estates -- Fiction
700 1 _aRitchie, Anne Thackeray,
_d1837-1919
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1424
999 _c43540
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