Castle Rackrent (Annotated)

Castle Rackrent (1800) is a compact yet remarkably innovative fiction chronicling the decline of an Anglo-Irish landed family through the voice of Thady Quirk, a servant whose loyal narration is edged with irony and concealment. Combining comic anecdote, legal intrigue, oral storytelling, and pseudo-editorial notes, Edgeworth creates a satire of aristocratic irresponsibility and colonial misunders...