Paperback
Publication Date: 01/01/2007
Irish author Maria Edgeworth was one of the chief early practitioners of more modern novels in English, as well as being one of the pioneering Anglo-Irish authors. Born in 1867, one of her best-known novels is Castle Rackrent (1800), often considered to be a prototypical Gothic novel. In 1812, she published The Absentee, a short novel that reflects the serious abuses of absentee British landlords in Ireland at the time. Another protest against this practice, of the same time period, that is perhaps better-known than Edgeworth's finely-written book is Swift's "A Modest Proposal," known to most high school and college students to this day as a well-reasoned justification for selling and cooking unwanted babies and children.
- ISBN:
- 9781603120074
- 9781603120074
- Category:
- Classic fiction
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 01-01-2007
- Publisher:
- Aegypan
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 232
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x13mm
- Weight:
- 0.34kg
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