The Absentee: A Tale. By Miss Edgeworth.

Notes

Mr. Mordicai (not Mordecai), a well-known Jewish coachmaker in London, is a contemptible moneylender. "Preface" by R. L. Edgeworth. S & S 25317 (S & S 25318 for an edition, also 1812, published by William Cooper, Washington City). Frequently reissued. Text also appears in vol. 2 of the author’s Tales of Fashionable Life (Philadelphia, etc., 1822-23), forming her Works of Maria Edgeworth, vol. 6. Frequently reissued.