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CASTLE RACKRENT de MARIA EDGEWORTH

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• CASTLE RACKRENT
• MARIA EDGEWORTH
• Idioma: INGLÉS
• Formatos: Pdf, ePub, MOBI, FB2
• ISBN: 9788728185384
• Editorial: SAGA EGMONT

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Overview

It is Downton Abbey meets Succession - but in the 18th century. Four generations of heirs to the Rackrent estate in Ireland are shown to have unique talents for mismanaging it. The careless big spender Sir Patrick OShaughlin, litigious Sir Murtagh Rackrent, abusive gambler Sir Kit Rackrent and the kind but unwise Sir Condy Rackrent are brought vividly to life by Maria Edgeworth through a narrator, Rackrent steward Thady Quirk. As the four heirs fight and foul up, behind the scenes there is a master manipulator pulling the strings. Will he benefit from the chaos? Castle Rackrent is Edgeworths first novel and is regarded as pioneering in the field of historical and regional novels. It satirises Anglo-Irish landlords at a time when the English and Irish governments were trying to formalise their union. The novel is alluded to in F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby. It is also cited by Sir Walter Scott as the inspiration for his Waverley historical novels. The Irish poet and dramatist W.B. Yeats called Castle Rackrent "one of the most inspired chronicles written in English." The Irish writer Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) was highly regarded in her day as a pioneer of early 19th century fiction and childrens literature. A friend of the novelist Sir Walter Scott (Ivanhoe, Rob Roy), she was active and vocal about political and estate reform. Today, she is rather underappreciated - and overshadowed - by other 19th century satirical novelists like Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope. A prolific writer, Edgeworths best-known works include Ennui, The Dun and Belinda, which was controversial in its day for featuring inter-racial marriage.