An Irish servant narrates the decline of a family of reckless landlords across generations. Edgeworth's witty pioneering regional novel.
Books mentioned in Castle Rackrent (1)
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “What is it you’re reading there? Did you hear me asking you, my dear?’ ‘THE SORROWS OF WERTHER,’ replies my lady, as well as I could hear.”