The Absentee
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Book Description
Set in London, this novel describes the attitudes of an Irish landowning family towards their tenants, emphasizing the pernicious consequences for Ireland and for the wider world of absentee landownership. The book includes appendices showing how Edgeworth revised the text from the 1st edition, and Edgeworth's "Notes for essay on the genius and style of Burke". "The absentee" (1812) is the second ... More
Book Information
Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
Binding | Paperback (26 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 368 |
ISBN-10 | 0192816829 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0192816825 |
Publication Date | 12/01/1988 |
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About Kim Walker (Editor) : Kim Walker is a published editor. Published credits of Kim Walker include The Absentee (Oxford World's Classics).
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About W. J. McCormack (Editor) : W. J. McCormack is a published editor. Some of the published credits of W. J. McCormack include The Absentee (Oxford World's Classics), The Eustace Diamonds (Oxford World's Classics), The Works of Mar... more
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