Castle Rackrent [Christmas Summary Classics]

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Reference

• Author: Maria Edgeworth
• ISBN: 1230000034642
• Publisher: Zhingoora Books
• Publication: November 30, 2012
• Language: English

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Castle Rackrent
"Castle Rackrent" was published anonymously in 1800. It was not only the first of Miss Edgeworth's novels,--it is in many respects her best work. Later came "The Absentee," "Belinda," "Helen," the "Tales of Fashionable Life," and the "Moral Tales." Sir Walter Scott wrote that reading these stories of Irish peasant life made him feel "that something might be tempted for my own country of the same kind as that which Miss Edgeworth so fortunately achieved for Ireland," something that would procure for his own countrymen "sympathy for their virtues and indulgence for their foibles." As a study of Irish fidelity in the person of Old Thady, the steward who tells the story of "Castle Rackrent," the book is a masterpiece.