© Fazi, 1999
With this satire on Anglo-Irish landlords, Maria Edgeworth pioneered the regional novel in English. Set in Ireland in the 18th century and narrated by 'honest Thady', a servant, this rioutous novel chronicles the often hopelessly dissolute and debauched lives of the landowning Rackrent family through four generations to their inevitable downfall and the subsequent rise of a cunning lawyer, the narrator's son.
1800
Translated into: Italian
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