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The story is set in Ireland, 1845-7, the famine years. "...[T]he story of the Fitzgeralds and their fight to survive a threat to possession of their family home, Castle Richmond. When Sir Thomas is blackmailed by the unscrupulous Mollets, his son, Herbert, is threatened with disinheritance; meanwhile both Herbert and his dashing cousin Owen compete for the hand of Clara Desmond, whose mother would secretly like Owen for herself. At the same time, Trollope's srupulous accuracy in recording prices, earnings, dates, and topography creates a disturbing pictue of the lives of the labouring Irish poor both before and during the famine." -- Cover, page [4]

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Castle Richmond, Anthony Trollope

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Jaar van publicatie
1989
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Taal
Engels
Jaar van publicatie
1989
Formaat
Paperback
ISBN10
0192821733
ISBN13
9780192821737
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The story is set in Ireland, 1845-7, the famine years. "...[T]he story of the Fitzgeralds and their fight to survive a threat to possession of their family home, Castle Richmond. When Sir Thomas is blackmailed by the unscrupulous Mollets, his son, Herbert, is threatened with disinheritance; meanwhile both Herbert and his dashing cousin Owen compete for the hand of Clara Desmond, whose mother would secretly like Owen for herself. At the same time, Trollope's srupulous accuracy in recording prices, earnings, dates, and topography creates a disturbing pictue of the lives of the labouring Irish poor both before and during the famine." -- Cover, page [4]