The Absentee is a novel by Maria Edgeworth, published in 1812 in Tales of Fashionable Life, that expresses the systemic evils of the absentee landlord class of Anglo-Irish and the desperate condition of the Irish peasantry. There are many turns of plot and much information about Ireland as well as Irish dialect and details of shallow London fashionable life, and the egregious results of the propertied classes treating their Irish lands as a resource to be exploited rather than as a relationship among classes and with the land. In this respect, it addresses similar themes to her first novel, Castle Rackrent.

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	March 29, 2021
ISBN13	9798730156838
Publishers	Independently Published
Pages	122
Dimensions	127 × 203 × 7 mm · 127 g
Language	English

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