Cover of Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park

by Unknown Author

3.8
(6 ratings)
528 pages2012HarperCollins Publishers LimitedISBN 9780007480531
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About this book

<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.</p><br/> <p>Everybody likes to go their own way – to choose their own time and manner of devotion.</p><br/> <p>At the age of ten, Fanny Price is sent away to live with her aunt and uncle at their grand house, Mansfield Park. Growing up alongside her indulged cousins, the Bertrams, she lives in the shadows of their glamorous lives, but finds an ally in her kind cousin, Edmund. When the questionable Crawfords come to visit, the house and its occupants are suddenly thrown into disarray. Romance begins to flourish, forcing Fanny to finally confront the extent of her true feelings for Edmund.</p><br/> <p>Considered Austen's most complex novel, the timid and moral character of Fanny Price has inspired more debate among modern readers than any of Austen's other female protagonists.</p>

Publication Details

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Published
2012
Pages
528
ISBN
9780007480531
Language
eng

About Unknown Author

Jane Austen was an English writer. Although Austen was widely read in her lifetime, she published her works anonymously. The most urgent preoccupations of her bright, young heroines are courtship and marriage. Austen herself never married. Her best-known books include *Pride and Prejudice* (1813) and *Emma* (1816). Virginia Woolf called Austen "the most perfect artist among women.

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