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Castle Rackrent (Oxford World's Classics) (Updated Edition) by Maria Edgeworth, George Watson (Editor), Kathryn J. Kirkpatrick (Introduction), Arnold [Illustrator] Lobel Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-19-953755-0 / 0199537550 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953755-6 / 9780199537556 During the 1790s, with Ireland in political crisis, Maria Edgeworth made a surprisingly rebellious choice: in Castle Rackrent, her first novel, she adopted an Irish Catholic voice to narrate the decline of a family from her own Anglo-Irish class. Castle Rackrent's narrator, Thady Quirk, gives us fo |