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Mansfield Park, although certainly regarded as a part of the canon of English literature, is often considered to be the weakest, least dazzling of Austen's novels. Without the witty sparkle of Pride and Prejudice or the gothic indulgence of Northanger Abbey, it has struggled at time to match the popularity of her other titles. But oh, what a treat those who pass over Mansfield Park are missing. Certainly, it is the most disturbing and perhaps the least superficially pleasing of Austen's output but it has rewards aplenty for the careful reader. Mansfield Park, home of the affluent Bertram family, takes in a young poor relation with the overt intention of giving her the advantages of a good education and good connections while preserving her sense of gratitude and subservience. Fanny, the haplessly lucky chosen beneficiary of such benevolence is uprooted from friends, home, family and all that it familiar to take up residence in the grand house with her grand relations. Austen sets Fanny up as the heroine, designed to evoke the sympathy of the reader: this is a challenge for a modern audience, many of whom will find her weak and too self-deprecating to be genuinely engaging. And similarly, the sins and deficiencies in disposition and feeling with which Austen gifts brother and sister, Mary and Henry Crawford, may seem not so damning today as Austen intended. This however, does little to detract from the overall value of the novel itself. The relationship between the Bertram family and its colonial role (their wealth derives from sugar plantations in Antigua) is only hinted at overtly, but beautifully explored through the metaphorical position of Mansfield as the centre of all that is English. Similarly, contemporary values regarding manners, position, influence and identity are gently rolled out for the reader through the evolving relationship between the Bertrams and their acquaintances and within the family itself. And yet, with all this meat beneath the surface, there is still a gentle and touching domestic love story, which evolves over the course of the novel as the more passionate, less fatalistic engagements and attachments of side characters wax and wane. Mansfield Park is a masterpiece of English manners, of Englishness and of empire.

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A powerful tale of the loves and lives of a young family growing up in a large country house, Mansfield Park delves deep into their fascinating characters and explores the complex relationships they develop. As appealing today as it was when first published over 200 years ago, Mansfield Park has been adapted for television several times and was made into a popular film directed by Patricia Rozema in 1999, which brought the story to a whole new generation.This meticulous digital edition from Heritage Publishing is a faithful reproduction of the original text and is beautifully illustrated with a number of historical sketches that accompanied early editions of the novel.

This edition includes 10 illustrations. While Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park contains all the elements for which she has become beloved – namely her biting wit at the expense of early 19th century societal mores – this novel, which was written squarely in the middle of her career and shows her continued maturation, is nonetheless her most dark and, at times, challenging. Yet while its moralizing heroine, Fanny Price, the poor girl come to live among her wealthy relatives, lacks some of the charisma of an Elizabeth Bennet or an Emma Woodhouse, a close reading of the novel reveals an admirable strength of character within Mansfield’s oppressive patriarchy.

Ten year old, Fanny Price, is very much the poor relation in Mansfield Park. Taken in by wealthy relatives, The Norrises, in order to offer just one of nine children in the Price family to be raised above the relative mire of poor social standing, Fanny Price moves to Mansfield Park to live with her cousins Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia. She is generally berated for costing her new family money, and is treated dismissively, with meanness and disregard. This we find shapes her moral character and sees Fanny, by the end of Mansfield Park, become elevated above almost her entire circle as a paragon of Regency womanhood. Thought to be one of Jane Austen’s most controversial novels, Mansfield Park contains all the love and romance expected of this world renowned novelist, while touching on subjects that were not quite so polite in Regency England – affairs, illegitimacy and slavery in the plantations. Mansfield Park was Austen’s third novel, and has been the inspiration for adaptations on TV, the big screen with a 1999 film, theatre productions, and even an opera of the same name.Buy this ebook free of spelling and formatting errors today, and enjoy forever.

Raised at Mansfield Park by her rich aunt and uncle, Fanny Price does not have high hopes or great marital prospects. When the fashionable and exciting siblings Henry and Mary Crawford arrive to stay near Mansfield Park, Fanny and her cousins’ lives are thrown into disarray with romantic entanglements and personal jealousies.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

When Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relations at Mansfield Park she seems shy and withdrawn beside her witty and vivacious cousins. But Fanny's steadfast and purposeful character makes her an indispensable part of the household. As the others become entangled in a maze of flirtation and intrigue, it is only Fanny whose deep but secret love for Edmund Bertram remains true despite his fascination with her brilliant but frivolous cousin Mary."Frances Barber offers a sterling performance, bringing life and sparkle to each character....Barber convincingly shifts from lord of the manor to sniveling servitude at the change of a sentence. And her narrative passages transparently tie the whole family together into one beautiful package." —AudioFile

Mansfield Park is the third published novel by Jane Austen and was completed between February 1811 and 1813 while Austen was living at Chawton Cottage. The novel details the life of its main heroine Fanny Price from childhood through to her eventual marriage with a close childhood friend. Mansfield Park was first published in May 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who also published Jane Austen's two earlier novels Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, in the two years prior to the third novel's publication. The publication of the novel was well received by the public and a second edition was published in 1816 by John Murray still within Austen's lifetime. Murray then went on to also publish Austen's fourth novel Emma which was Austen's last published novel still within the author's lifetime.BONUS :• Mansfield Park Audiobook.• Biography of Jane Austen• The 29 Best Jane Austen Quotes.

This Regency drawing-room comedy follows the development of sweet, honest and courageous Fanny Price from the shy little poor girl into the woman who marries her cousin, the goody-goody clergyman Edmund Bertram. Fanny could be looked upon as almost insufferably good, virtuous and dull, if she were not presented with such imagination and placed among the many diverse and interesting people who frequent the house of Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram at Mansfield Park.