The Big House of Inver - New edition
| By: | Edith Somerville, Martin Ross |
| Publisher: | A.& A.Farmar |
| Published: | January 1999 |
| Pages: | 300 |
| Categories: | Fiction |
| Language: | English |
| Available as: | Paperback |
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This novel, according to Somerville, "concerns the history of one of those minor dynasties that, in Ireland, have risen, and rules, and rioted, and crashed in ruins." "Somerville and Ross know their world as well as Jane Austen knew hers." - John Bayley.
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