| Front | Castle Rackrent |
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| Back | novel Maria Edgeworth 1801 Thady Quirk, steward to the Rackrent family, relates the history of the family 's path to ruin beginning three generations back with the hard-drinking sir Patrick. like the Absentee the novel criticizes the Irish landlord of the 18th , vividly depicting the evil results of profligacy and corruption The novel is set prior to the Constitution of 1782 and tells the story of four generations of Rackrent heirs through their steward, Thady Quirk. The heirs are: the dissipated spendthrift Sir Patrick O'Shaughlin, the litigious Sir Murtagh Rackrent, the cruel husband and gambling absentee Sir Kit Rackrent, and the generous but improvident Sir Condy Rackrent. Their sequential mismanagement of the estate is resolved through the machinations—and to the benefit—of the narrator's astute son, Jason Quirk. |
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