Mansfield Park (Wordsworth Classics)
by Jane Austen, Ian Littlewood | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1853260320 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 1853260320 Global Overview for this book
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The Mansfield Park of the title, a magnificent, idyllic estate which is home to the wealthy Bertram family, stands as a bastion of English tradition and stability. The novel's heroine, Fanny Price, is a "poor relation" living with the Bertrams, acutely conscious of her inferior status and yet daring to love their son Edmund--but from afar. However, with five marriageable young people on the premises, the peace at Mansfield cannot last. Courtships, entertainments and intrigues throw the place into turmoil, and Fanny finds herself unwillingly competing with a dazzlingly witty and lovely rival. As critic Margaret Drabble has pointed out, the house becomes "full of the energies of discord--sibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion, and vanity," and the novel becomes ever more engrossing as it builds to Mansfield's final scandal and, finally, a satisfying conclusion. Unique in its moral design and brilliant interplay of the forces of tradition and change, Mansfield Park was the first novel of Jane Austen's maturity, and the first in which the author turned her unerring eye on the concerns of English society at a time of great upheaval.
The story of poor relation Fanny Price's loyal love for the son of the family is presented here with a new introduction by Marilyn Butler.
The story of poor relation Fanny Price's loyal love for the son of the family is presented here with a new introduction by Marilyn Butler.
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