CASTLE RACKRENT
 | ReadHowYouWant, 2006, Paperback |
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Published in 1800, “Castle Rackrent” is regarded as the first family saga and first regional novel in English. It chronicles the lives of four generations of 18th-century Irish landlords, and how their negligent behaviour towards life and money takes them to the edge of bankruptcy and ruin. A stimulating satire!
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Title: CASTLE RACKRENT
Sales Rank: 1475004 in Books
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant, EasyRead Comfort Edition edition, 2006-11-01, Paperback, 152 pages, ISBN: 142503568X
Package Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.37 inches, 0.62 pounds
- Unsettling Anglo-Irish Social Satire
- Maria Edgeworth's "Castle Rackrent," published in 1800, the year of Irish union with Great Britain, and just two years after the 1798 Irish Rebellion, is supposedly a comic satire intended to show after years of unrest, that the Irish were civil enough to be assimilated into the British Empire. That is a deceptively simple description of a book in conflict with its author… More reviews
- Boring, boring!
- This book is simply boring. There are fun things to it, especially if you know your Irish history, but these out-of-date parodies are still not good enough to make it worth reading. Under the narrative of Thady Quirk, which is -- at least to me -- fairly hard to get through, we are taken through the history of a protestant landlord family. If you truly dissect the… More reviews
