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| Title | : | Mansfield Park |
| Author | : | Jane Austen |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Penguin Classics |
| Pages | : | Pages: 507 pages |
| Published | : | 2003 by Penguin Books (first published July 1st 1814) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Childrens. Middle Grade. Fiction. Young Adult |
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Adopted into the household of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, Fanny Price grows up a meek outsider among her cousins in the unaccustomed elegance of Mansfield Park. Soon after Sir Thomas absents himself on estate business in Antigua (the family's investment in slavery and sugar is considered in the Introduction in a new, post-colonial light), Mary Crawford and her brother Henry arrive at Mansfield, bringing with them London glamour, and the seductive taste for flirtation and theatre that precipitates a crisis. While Mansfield Park appears in some ways to continue where Pride and Prejudice left off, it is, as Kathryn Sutherland shows in her illuminating Introduction, a much darker work, which challenges 'the very values (of tradition, stability, retirement and faithfulness) it appears to endorse'. This new edition provides an accurate text based, for the first time since its original publication, on the first edition of 1814.
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| Original Title: | Mansfield Park |
| ISBN: | 0141439807 (ISBN13: 9780141439808) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Fanny Price (Mansfield Park), Edmund Bertram, Henry Crawford, Mary Crawford, Sir Thomas Bertram, Lady Bertram, William Price, Tom Bertram, Maria Bertram, Julia Bertram, Mr. Rushworth, Mr. Yates, Mr. Price, Mrs. Price, Mrs. Norris |
| Setting: | United Kingdom Northamptonshire, England |
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Ratings: 3.86 From 271684 Users | 8990 ReviewsEvaluation About Books Mansfield Park
I'm so surprised this book isn't more beloved. It's now my second favorite Austen, for sure.Edit: Screw it, this deserves five stars. I make an impassioned defense of Fanny Price on my booktube channel: https://youtu.be/v6fFycNb6m03 1/2 stars. Mansfield Park is very different from the well-known Pride and Prejudice, but it's still a very good read. In fact, it was around 4 1/2 stars up until the end, which I found unnecessarily dragged out and long.If you don't know, I love Jane Austen. While I've only read one other book by her, I grew up watching all the movies and the stories found a permanent place in my heart. Maybe it's because I got to visit Jane Austen's house in England and see her very own writing desk that I
I have a feeling that Fanny Price is more like the real Jane Austen than, let's say, Elizabeth Bennett or Emma Woodhouse. I think Jane wanted to be like Elizabeth and Emma, but she knew she was really Fanny. The book had a different feel to it than the others, more serious characters, more real life issues. All in all, I liked it. I would rate it somewhere in the middle of the pack of her novels. But Fanny is one of my favorite Jane Austen heroines.
Fanny Price's mother had two sisters as beautiful as she, one married an affluent gentleman Sir Thomas Bertram, and everyone said this would enable her siblings, to do the same. Nevertheless little England hasn't enough rich men, to accommodate deserving ladies. Another married a respectable quiet clergyman, with little money. Sir Thomas's friend, Reverend Norris good yet dull , gets him a church and a cottage in Mansfield Park, Northampton, on his vast estate. The kind Sir Thomas is very
This edition of Mansfield Park comes with a great introduction and notes, containing interesting information about the publication of this novel and historical context.I have been a huge Jane Austen fan ever since I first saw P&P and shortly thereafter read the novel, leading to me falling in love with the dignified wit and sass this author has had. It can't have been easy in her time, which makes me appreciate her dry humour and social criticism even more.A fair warning to you all: I cannot
Fanny is quite a different bird than most that fly through the books I normally read, self-effacing, eager to please, and horribly self-conscious. I'm not used to that as a main character in an Austen book. Still, it works. She's shy and sensitive, and while we all like to poo-poo such characters in novels, they're generally quite wonderful people in real life.So am I giving this novel a pass because I felt something for Fanny? Possibly. Otherwise, I probably would have been up in arms against
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