The absentee /
Maria Edgeworth.
- [New ed.] / with an introduction by Heidi Thomson /edited by Heidi Thomson and Kim Walker.
- London : Penguin, 2000.
- xxx, 277p. ; 20 cm.
- Penguin classics .
Previous ed.: London: Pickering & Chatto, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxix-xxx).
An Irish landlord flees from a society marriage, to return in disguise to his family estate in Ireland. Here he sets out to find a solution to his father's debts and the mismanagement of the estate.