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Name: The Absentee (Oxford World&#39;s Classics)
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Author: Edgeworth, Maria
ISBN: 9780192838308

de Maria Edgeworth

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Resumen

On the eve of his coming of age, a young Lord begins to see the truth of his parents' lives: his mother cannot buy her way into society no matter how hard he tries, and his father is being ruined by her continued attempts. The young Lord then travels to his home in Ireland, encountering adventure on the way, and discovers that the native residents are being exploited in his father's absence.

Primera línea

"Are you to be at lady Clonbrony's gala next week?" said lady Langdale to Mrs. Dareville, whilst they were waiting for their carriages in the crush-room* of the opera-house.

Descripción de contraportada

Lord Clonbrony and his ambitious, worldly wife lead an extravagant social life in London on the proceeds of their estates in Ireland. Their son, Lord Colambre, refusing to marry the heiress arranged for him by his mother, decides instead to investigate, incognito, how the family estates in Ireland are being managed. Appalled at the corruption, mismanagement, and poverty he finds, but encouraged by the affectionate goodwill of the tenants and the honesty of his father's agent Burke, he finds a solution to the problem of his father's debts and his family's wilful indifference, in absentia.