The Absentee - Penguin Classics Author:Maria Edgeworth, Heidi Thomson A comic novel of Irish life concerning the serious consequences of absentee ownership. While his ambitious mother leads an extravagant life in London, Lord Colambre visits his family's irish estates incognito and investigates the background of the woman he loves. To put matters straight he finds a solution that will bring prosperity and cont... more »entment to every level of society, including his own family. Originally published in 1812.« less
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