Castle Rackrent: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition - A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition

Castle Rackrent chronicles the declining fortunes and ultimate ruin of the Rackrent family through the mishandling of their estate by a series of incompetent heirs. This edition does more than any other to set this classic novel in the political, economic, and religious context of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Irish life.