The Absentee is a novel by Maria Edgeworth, published in 1812 in Tales of Fashionable Life.
Lord Colambre, the sensitive hero of the novel, finds that his mother Lady Clonbrony's attempts to buy her way into the high society of London are only ridiculed, while his father, Lord Clonbrony, is in serious debt as a result of his wife's lifestyle. Colambre travels incognito to Ireland to see the country that he still considers his home. When he returns to London he assists his father to pay off the debts, on condition that the Clonbrony family return to live in Ireland.
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Free eBook of The Absentee (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1473) at Project Gutenberg
Absentee landlords, who own property but rent its use out to others, are often considered a major social problem in areas with a wide disparity between rich and poor.
A large proportion of absentee landlords are often considered an indicator of urban blight.
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