Castle Rackrent
by Maria Edgeworth
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0192815393
- ISBN 13
- 9780192815392
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About This Item
Oxford University Press. Good. 180mm / 120mm. Paperback. 1980. 127 pages. Spine faded<br>When a long-time servant of the Rackren t family decides to write about family members whom he has served , the result is a stylishly entertaining exploration of master/se rvant relationships. Edgeworth's brilliant satire of early-19th-c entury Anglo-Irish landlords pioneered the regional novel and cha nged ... .
Synopsis
Castle Rackrent, a short novel by Maria Edgeworth published in 1800, is often regarded as the first historical novel, the first regional novel in English, the first Anglo-Irish novel, the first Big House novel and the first saga novel. It is also widely regarded as the first novel to use the device of a narrator who is both unreliable and an observer of, rather than a player in, the actions he chronicles.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3191z
- Title
- Castle Rackrent
- Author
- Maria Edgeworth
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0192815393
- ISBN 13
- 9780192815392
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1980
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