1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

  • Gulliver's Travels
  • Roxana
  • Moll Flanders
  • Love In Excess
  • Robinson Crusoe
  • A Tale of a Tub
  • Oroonoko
  • The Princess of Cleves

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

62. The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth

This was enjoyable to read on several levels - as a romance in which virtuous hero is united with virtuous heroine, as social parody about English society, and as social commentary about absentee Irish landlords and corrupt agents and the effect on their tenants.

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