The Absentee

Complete and unabridged, with 36 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, David Wilkie and Thomas Gainsborough. Lord and Lady Clonbrony live in London, spending the rents of an Irish estate they have not seen in years, while their agent squeezes it — and their son goes over incognito to look. Edgeworth helped run her father's estate in County Longford and put what she learned into Castle Rackrent; this 1...