{"product_id":"9780199537556","title":"Castle Rackrent","description":"\u003cp\u003eHaving, out of friendship for the family, upon whose estate, praised be Heaven! I and mine have lived rent-free time out of mind, voluntarily undertaken to publish the \u003cem\u003eMemoirs of the Rackrent Family,\u003c\/em\u003e I think it my duty to say a few words, in the first place, concerning myself. My real name is Thady Quirk, though in the family I have always been known by no other than \"Honest Thady,\" afterward, in the time of Sir Murtagh, deceased, I remember to hear them calling me \"Old Thady,\" and now I've come to \"Poor Thady\"; for I wear a long greatcoat winter and summer, which is very handy, as I never put my arms into the sleeves; they are as good as new, though come Holantide next I've had it these seven years: it holds on by a single button round my neck, cloak fashion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo look at me, you would hardly think \"Poor Thady\" was the father of Attorney Quirk; he is a high gentleman, and never minds what poor Thady says, and having better than fifteen hundred a year, landed estate, looks down upon honest Thady; but I wash my hands of his doings, and as I have lived so will I die, true and loyal to the family. The family of the Rackrents is, I am proud to say, one of the most ancient in the kingdom. Everybody knows this is not the old family name, which was O'Shaughlin, related to the kings of Ireland -- but that was before my time. My grandfather was driver to the great Sir Patrick O'Shaughlin, and I heard him, when I was a boy, telling how the Castle Rackrent estate came to Sir Patrick . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008977617136,"sku":"9780199537556","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780199537556_p0.jpg?v=1763669925","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780199537556","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}