The Absentee - Paperback - 9781478225157

Maria Edgeworth was as popular in her day as her great contemporary Sir Walter Scott, and 'The Absentee' (1812) is her best novel, a work which vividly evokes the conditions of the Irish peasantry and launches a sustained attack on the Anglo-Irish absentee landlord class. John Ruskin said that 'you can learn more of Irish politics [by reading 'The Absentee'] than from a thousand columns out of blue-books.'

• | Author: Maria Edgeworth
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Jul 11, 2012
• | Number of Pages: 244 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1478225157
• | ISBN-13: 9781478225157