Author: Edgeworth, Maria; Editor: Butler, Marylin
Penguin Classics; Paperback; Standard Hardcover size
368 pages
Published: August 1992
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 0140433201

Black Classic. A two-in-one volume containing Marie Edgeworth's 'Castle Rackrent' (a saga involving a dissolute Irish family) and the haunting, romantic 'Ennui'. Black Classic. A two-in-one volume containing Marie Edgeworth's 'Castle Rackrent' (a saga involving a dissolute Irish family) and the haunting, romantic 'Ennui'.Castle Rackrent (1800) is Maria Edgeworth's first novel, and tells the story of a dissolute Irish family. Ennui (1809) contains a personification of Ireland, in the character of an old nurse, and a spirited feminist heroine.