Castle Richmond
โ Scribed by Trollope, Anthony
- Book ID
- 106868447
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall
- Year
- 1860
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 314 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
As the story opens, we soon learn that Sir Thomas Fitzgerald, the owner of Castle Richmond in County Cork, has descended into a long-lasting depression. The cause, one can guess, is a guilty secret. It is embodied in the persons of a pair of blackmailers, the Molletts: a drunken father and an unscrupulous son. They are trying to extort money from Sir Thomas in return for their silence on the subject of the revelations they threaten: about his wife, specifically, which if published will disinheirit his children in favour of his relative, Owen Fitzgerald.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
This edition follows the text of the 1873 reissue of the novel, set in Ireland during the famine years of 1845-7. Trollope concentrates on the lives of the labouring Irish poor, both before and during the famine, as the Fitzgeralds fight to survive a threat to possession of their family home. Mary H