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  • - Moral Tale
    af Maria Edgeworth
    170,95 kr.

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  • af Maria Edgeworth
    174,95 - 316,95 kr.

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    497,95 - 634,95 kr.

  • - Maria Edgeworth, NOVEL (World's classic's): The novel is written in an epistolary style, which means all of the action is mediated through personal letters and the letter-writers' points-of-view.
    af Maria Edgeworth
    107,95 kr.

    Leonora is a novel written by Maria Edgeworth and published in 1806. Although Edgeworth is known for having her novels (Castle Rackrent, The Absentee) address issues of nationalism in an Anglo-Irish context, Leonora instead privileges English manners over French ones. The plot of the novel centers on the newly married Leonora and her decision to bring back to England a woman who had been exiled to France. The woman, Olivia, is known as a "coquette," and her controversial behavior with regard to her marriage had driven her to France, where she cultivated an aristocratic, "French" sensibility that exists apart from conventional morality. The novel is written in an epistolary style, which means all of the action is mediated through personal letters and the letter-writers' points-of-view. By having the main characters tell the story through their own perspectives, the reader gets to read full articulations of competing sensibilities and philosophies, although the narrative clearly prefers Leonora's prudent reserve over Olivia's extravagant emotional displays. Indeed, this novel can be read as a critique of Sensibility, a behavioral phenomenon that tries to correlate a person's emotional sensitivity with her elevated moral sentiments. Olivia, a self-professed woman of Sensibility, often makes dramatic displays of feeling that are described by others as "theatrical," or contrived, and in her personal correspondence with her French friend, Gabrielle, Olivia makes grand claims about sentiment and love that, conveniently, justify her insatiable need for attention, particularly male attention. While a conventional reading of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility dismisses the heroine Marianne's Sensibility as romantic teenage folly, Edgeworth's novel Leonora emphasizes Olivia's behavior as hypocritical narcissism. Maria Edgeworth's letter to Mrs. Pruxton at Black Castle, Navan, dated 8 June 1806, reads: "------ Lady Olivia in ' Leonora ' is now supposed by all Dublin to be a portrait of Lady Asgill [wife of Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet] and that wherever they go they have to defend me by asserting that I'm not acquainted with the said Lady Asgill. Very luckily I never did meet her at Lady Holt's where she was intimate. She was educated by Mademoiselle Le Noir who was Miss Bracebridge's governess and who was more like Mademoiselle Panache than Lady Asgill is - to Olivia - at all events this fancy of the Dublin fine world promotes the sale of the book and I am content. -------." Lady Bessborough, writing to Granville Leveson Gower from Paris on Thursday, 23 December 1802, had this to say about Maria Edgeworth: ".....I was introduc'd by him [François de la Harpe] to the famous Miss Edgeworth and her Brother (Castle Rackrent &c. By the by, I am sure she wrote it all herself, for the brother seems a fool and a coxcomb; she very ugly, but delightful.)"... Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 - 22 May 1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views, for a woman of her time, on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo......

  • af Maria Edgeworth
    153,95 kr.

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  • af Maria Edgeworth
    407,95 kr.

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  • af Maria Edgeworth
    320,95 kr.

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  • af Maria Edgeworth
    206,95 kr.

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    192,95 - 337,95 kr.

  • af Maria Edgeworth
    412,95 kr.

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  • af Maria Edgeworth
    330,95 kr.

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  • - Containing Waste Not, Want Not; The Bracelets; And Lazy Lawrence (1847)
    af Maria Edgeworth
    255,95 kr.

    The Fireside Story Book is a collection of three short stories written by Maria Edgeworth and published in 1847. The first story, Waste Not, Want Not, tells the tale of a young girl named Rosamond who learns the value of frugality and resourcefulness. The second story, The Bracelets, is about a young boy named Harry who must learn to take responsibility for his actions after losing a valuable family heirloom. The final story, Lazy Lawrence, follows the titular character as he learns the importance of hard work and determination. Each story is designed to teach important moral lessons to young readers, and is presented in a charming and engaging style that is sure to captivate readers of all ages. With its timeless themes and engaging characters, The Fireside Story Book remains a classic of children's literature that is sure to delight readers for generations to come.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

  • - Taken From Facts, And From The Manners Of The Irish Squires, Before The Year 1782 (1801)
    af Maria Edgeworth
    275,95 - 416,95 kr.

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  • - A Sequel to Frank in Early Lessons- (1822). By: Maria Edgeworth (Complete set volume 1, and 2).: Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 - 22 May 1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature.
    af Maria Edgeworth
    162,95 kr.

    Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 - 22 May 1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views, for a woman of her time, on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo. Early life: Maria Edgeworth was born at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire. She was the second child of Richard Lovell Edgeworth (who eventually fathered 22 children by four wives) and Anna Maria Edgeworth; Maria was thus an aunt of Francis Ysidro Edgeworth. She spent her early years with her mother's family in England, until her mother's death when Maria was five. When her father married his second wife Honora Sneyd in 1773, she went with him to his estate, Edgeworthstown, in County Longford, Ireland. Maria was sent to Mrs. Lattafière's school in Derby after Honora fell ill in 1775. After Honora died in 1780 Maria's father married Honora's sister Elizabeth (then socially disapproved and legally forbidden from 1833 until the Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act 1907). Maria transferred to Mrs. Devis's school in London. Her father's attention became fully focused on her in 1781 when she nearly lost her sight to an eye infection. Returning home at the age of 14, she took charge of her many younger siblings and was home-tutored in law, Irish economics and politics, science, and literature by her father. She also started her lifelong correspondences with learned men, mainly members of the Lunar Society. She became her father's assistant in managing the Edgeworthstown estate, which had become run-down during the family's 1777-1782 absence; she would live and write there for the rest of her life. With their bond strengthened, Maria and her father began a lifelong academic collaboration "of which she was the more able and nimble mind." Present at Edgeworthstown was an extended family, servants and tenants. She observed and recorded the details of daily Irish life, later drawing on this experience for her novels about the Irish. She also mixed with the Anglo-Irish gentry, particularly Kitty Pakenham (later the wife of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington), Lady Moira, and her aunt Margaret Ruxton of Black Castle. Margaret supplied her with the novels of Anne Radcliffe and William Godwin and encouraged her in her writing. Though Maria Edgeworth spent most of her childhood in England, her life in Ireland had a profound impact on both her thinking and views surrounding her Irish culture. Fauske and Kaufman conclude, "[She] used her fiction to address the inherent problems of acts delineated by religious, national, racial, class based, sexual, and gendered identities." Edgeworth used works such Castle Rackrent and Harrington to express her feelings on controversial issues.

  • - The Orange Man, The Cherry Orchard, And The Little Dog Trusty (1850)
    af Maria Edgeworth
    193,95 kr.

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  • af Maria Edgeworth
    87,95 - 97,95 kr.

    Maria Edgeworth was one of Europe's first true novelists. Working during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Edgeworth wrote prodigiously for both adults and children, with her works helping to define realist novels and social commentaries.

  • af Maria Edgeworth
    303,95 kr.

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  • af Maria Edgeworth
    339,95 kr.

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  • - Vivian
    af Maria Edgeworth
    409,95 kr.

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  • - Maria Edgeworth (Original Classics) COMPLETE SET VOLUME 1,2 AND 3.: The novel is an autobiography of a "recovering anti-Semite", whose youthful prejudices are undone by contact with various Jewish characters, particularly a young woman.
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    227,95 kr.

    Harrington is an 1817 novel by British novelist Maria Edgeworth. The novel was written in response to a letter from a Jewish-American reader who complained about Edgeworth's stereotypically anti-semitic portrayals of Jews in Castle Rackrent (1800), Belinda (1801), The Absentee (1812), and her Moral Tales (1801) for children. The novel is an autobiography of a "recovering anti-Semite", whose youthful prejudices are undone by contact with various Jewish characters, particularly a young woman. It also makes parallels between the religious discrimination of the Jews and the Catholics in Ireland. Set between the Jewish Naturalization Act of 1753 and the Gordon Riots of 1780, the timeframe highlights these connections. Synopsis Harrington follows the protagonist of the same name who explores his memories to better understand his views on Jews. The novel begins with Harrington's early image of Jews, formed by stories told by his maid of Simon the Jew. Harrington says that the stories of Simon the Jew were " used upon every occasion to reduce me to passive obedience." His parents further strengthen this image by rewarding Harrington's antisemitism. Only after attending public school and meeting the bully Mowbray are Harrington's views on Jews changed. Mowbray's tormenting of the Jewish peddler Jacob causes this sudden shift in thinking. The story shifts to a romance novel with the introduction of Berenice Montenero, an American Jew who moved to England with her wealthy father. Harrington's family and friends are alarmed at his choice of a Jewish woman, a relationship further impeded by the advances of Harrington's old rival Mowbray. Seeking marriage into a wealthy family, Mowbray's attempts to court Berenice are denied. As revenge, Mowbray brings charges of insanity against Harrington, a situation further compounded by his family threatening to disown him. To marry Berenice, Harrington must overcome these obstacles and prove himself to Mr. Montenero. He is thus tested "by experiences designed to arouse his enthusiasm and fear."Mowbray is exposed as the culprit behind Harrington's supposed insanity and Harrington is deemed worthy of marriage to Berenice. This strange courtship is concluded with the revelation by Mr. Montenero, "I have tried you to the utmost, and am satisfied both of the steadiness of your principles and of the strength of your attachment to my daughter-Berenice is not a Jewess."... Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 - 22 May 1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views, for a woman of her time, on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo. Early life: Maria Edgeworth was born at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire. She was the second child of Richard Lovell Edgeworth (who eventually fathered 22 children by four wives) and Anna Maria Edgeworth; Maria was thus an aunt of Francis Ysidro Edgeworth. She spent her early years with her mother's family in England, until her mother's death when Maria was five. When her father married his second wife Honora Sneyd in 1773, she went with him to his estate, Edgeworthstown, in County Longford, Ireland. Maria was sent to Mrs. Lattafière's school in Derby after Honora fell ill in 1775. After Honora died in 1780 Maria's father married Honora's sister Elizabeth (then socially disapproved and legally forbidden from 1833 until the Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act 1907)......

  • af Maria Edgeworth
    390,95 kr.

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  • af Maria Edgeworth
    241,95 kr.

    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Scènes De La Vie Du Grand Monde...; Scènes De La Vie Du Grand Monde; Maria Edgeworth Maria Edgeworth Nicolle, 1814

  • af Maria Edgeworth
    77,95 - 152,95 kr.

    The story of the Edgeworth Family, if it were properly told, should be as long as the ARABIAN NIGHTS themselves; the thousand and one cheerful intelligent members of the circle, the amusing friends and relations, the charming surroundings, the cheerful hospitable home, all go to make up an almost unique history of a county family of great parts and no little character. The Edgeworths were people of good means and position, and their rental, we are told, amounted to nearly L3000 a year. At one time there was some talk of a peerage for Mr. Edgeworth, but he was considered too independent for a peerage.

  • af Maria Edgeworth
    184,95 kr.

    The Will is a novel written by Maria Edgeworth, a prominent Irish author of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The book tells the story of a wealthy landowner named Mr. Percy, who dies suddenly, leaving behind a contested will that divides his estate between his two sons, Augustus and Henry. The two brothers have vastly different personalities and ambitions, and their rivalry over the inheritance leads to a series of dramatic events.The novel explores themes of family, inheritance, and social class, as well as the complexities of human relationships and the consequences of greed and jealousy. Through the characters of Augustus and Henry, Edgeworth offers a commentary on the changing social and economic landscape of 19th-century England, as well as the tensions between tradition and modernity.Overall, The Will is a compelling and insightful novel that offers a nuanced exploration of family dynamics, inheritance disputes, and the human condition. With its richly drawn characters and vivid descriptions of English country life, it remains a classic of 19th-century literature and a testament to Edgeworth's skill as a writer.""If Miss Barton knows any thing of a letter that was left at Mrs. Stokes's, the milliner's, last night, she may receive an answer to her questions from the bearer; who, being no scholar, hopes she will not take no offence at the shortness of these lines, but satisfy him in the honour of drinking tea with her, who waits below stairs for an answer.""This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

  • - By Maria Edgeworth (1825)
    af Maria Edgeworth
    336,95 kr.

    Tales And Miscellaneous Pieces V1: By Maria Edgeworth (1825) is a collection of short stories and essays written by the renowned Irish author Maria Edgeworth. The book features a wide range of tales, including stories of love, adventure, and morality, as well as essays on various topics such as education, politics, and society. The stories are set in different parts of the world and explore the lives of people from different walks of life, from aristocrats to peasants. The book is written in Edgeworth's distinctive style, which combines wit, humor, and social commentary. It is a fascinating glimpse into the world of 19th-century literature and a must-read for fans of Maria Edgeworth's work.In Fourteen Volumes.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

  • af Maria Edgeworth
    194,95 - 336,95 kr.

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  • - A Tale
    af Maria Edgeworth
    77,95 - 107,95 kr.

    The Modern GriseldaA TaleMaria EdgeworthGriselda (anglicised to Grizzel and similar forms) is a figure from certain folklores, noted for her patience and obedience. In the tale as written by Giovanni Boccaccio, Griselda marries Gualtieri, the Marquis of Saluzzo. He tests her by declaring that their first child--a daughter--must be put to death, likewise their second child--a son. Griselda obediently gives up both of them without protest, while Gualtieri secretly sends them away to Bologna to be raised rather than killed.Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 - 22 May 1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views, for a woman of her time, on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo.

  • af Maria Edgeworth
    304,95 kr.

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  • - and Ormond, a tale Volume v.1
    af Maria Edgeworth
    316,95 kr.

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  • - Maria Edgeworth
    af Maria Edgeworth
    162,95 kr.

    Castle Rackrent, a short novel by Maria Edgeworth published in 1800, is often regarded as the first historical novel, the first regional novel in English, the first Anglo-Irish novel, the first Big House novel and the first saga novel. It is also widely regarded as the first novel to use the device of a narrator who is both unreliable and an observer of, rather than a player in, the actions he chronicles. Kirkpatrick suggests that it "both borrows from and originates a variety of literary genres and subgenres without neatly fitting into any one of them".[1] William Butler Yeats pronounced Castle Rackrent "one of the most inspired chronicles written in English".[2][3] Shortly before its publication, an introduction, glossary and footnotes, written in the voice of an English narrator, were added to the original text to blunt the negative impact the Edgeworths feared the book might have on English enthusiasm for the Act of Union 1800

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