Complete and unabridged, with 36 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, David Wilkie and Thomas Gainsborough. Lord and Lady Clonbrony live in London, spending the rents of an Irish estate they have not seen in years, while their agent squeezes it — and their son goes over incognito to look. Edgeworth helped run her father's estate in County Longford and put what she learned into Castle Rackrent; this 1812 novel is the sharpest thing written about absentee landlordism by someone who was on the landlords' side of it. Thirty-six plates after Lawrence, Gainsborough and others follow the novel's course from London interiors to open landscape, matching its movement from drawing-room debt to the Irish land itself.