Although born in England in 1768, Maria Edgeworth was raised in Ireland from a young age after the death of her mother. After nearly losing her sight at age fourteen, Edgeworth was tutored at home by her father, helping to run their estate and taking charge of her younger siblings. Over the course of her life she collaborated and published books with her father, and produced many more of her own adult and children’s works, including such classics as Castle Rackrent, Patronage, Belinda, Ormond and The Absentee. Edgeworth spent her entire life on the family estate, but kept up friendships and correspondences with her contemporaries Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, and her writing had a profound influence upon Jane Austen and William Makepeace Thackeray. Edgeworth was outspoken on the issues of poverty, women’s rights, and racial inequalities. During the beginnings of famine in Ireland, Edgeworth worked in relief and support of the sick and destitute. She died in 1849 at the age of 81.
¿Qué te queda por desear cuando ya lo tienes todo?
El conde de Glenthorn fallece dejando a su heredero su título y una enorme fortuna. El joven conde se entrega sin medida a las diversiones y vicios de moda pero, incluso mientras disfruta de todos ellos, se siente permanentemente insatisfecho sin saber por qué. Es víctima del ennui, un hastío que sobreviene a quien lo tiene todo.
Sin embargo, la visita de la nodriza irlandesa que lo crio hace que Glenthorn emprenda un viaje a las antiguas tierras de su familia en Irlanda, donde encontrará los mejores antídotos contra su enfermedad: el amor, las aventuras y el trabajo.
Maria Edgeworth es la principal novelista inglesa de finales del siglo XVIII y comienzos del XIX . Entre sus admiradores se contaban Jane Austen, Lord Byron, Stendhal, Iván Turguénev, Anthony Trollope o Walter Scott.
"He decidido leer únicamente mis obras y las de Maria Edgeworth."
Jane Austen
"Las novelas de Maria Edgeworth han sido una revelación para mí. Me gustaría, aunque fuera a mi modesta manera, ser capaz de emular los maravillosos retratos irlandeses que hace la señorita Edgeworth"
Iván Turguénev
"Ennui me tiene encantada."
Madame de Staël
"La contribución más innovadora, valiente e influyente de una escritora inglesa antes de Charlotte Brontë y George Eliot."
Marilyn Butler
"Ennui es una obra perfecta, a la altura de los mejores textos de Voltaire."
The Edinburgh Review
Title : Ennui
EAN : 9788417743796
Publisher : Ático de los Libros
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