Mansfield Park is named for the magnificent, idyllic estate that is home to the wealthy Bertram family and a powerful symbol 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--from afar. But 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. The ever more engrossing story builds to Mansfield's final scandal and its satisfying conclusion. Unique in its moral design and its 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.
In a novel filled with drama, greed, vanity, passion, and vulnerability, Jane Austen turns her unerring eye on the concerns of English societyin this historical romance classic.
"Every moment had its pleasure and its hope."
Fanny Price has grown up acutely conscious of her inferior status as a "poor relation" living with her wealthy cousins, the Bertram family. Yet as she enters womanhood, she dares to love their youngest son, Edmund-from afar. Secret longings aside, there is peace at the Bertrams' idyllic estate, until the handsome and charming Crawford siblings arrive. Soon, Fanny finds herself unwillingly competing with the dazzling, witty Mary for Edmund's affections-and is shocked to acquire a determined new suitor of her own. With five marriageable young people embroiled in courtships, entanglements, and intrigues, it's only a matter of time before scandal reveals the true feelings of all the residents at Mansfield Park.
Unique in its moral design and its brilliant interplay of the forces of tradition and change, Mansfield Park is one of Austen's most complex and controversial works.
Includes an Introduction by Margaret Drabble
and an Afterword by Julia Quinn, author of the Bridgerton series
Mansfield Park is named for the magnificent, idyllic estate that is home to the wealthy Bertram family and a powerful symbol 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--from afar. But 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. The ever more engrossing story builds to Mansfield's final scandal and its satisfying conclusion. Unique in its moral design and its 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.
In a novel filled with drama, greed, vanity, passion, and vulnerability, Jane Austen turns her unerring eye on the concerns of English societyin this historical romance classic.
"Every moment had its pleasure and its hope."
Fanny Price has grown up acutely conscious of her inferior status as a "poor relation" living with her wealthy cousins, the Bertram family. Yet as she enters womanhood, she dares to love their youngest son, Edmund-from afar. Secret longings aside, there is peace at the Bertrams' idyllic estate, until the handsome and charming Crawford siblings arrive. Soon, Fanny finds herself unwillingly competing with the dazzling, witty Mary for Edmund's affections-and is shocked to acquire a determined new suitor of her own. With five marriageable young people embroiled in courtships, entanglements, and intrigues, it's only a matter of time before scandal reveals the true feelings of all the residents at Mansfield Park.
Unique in its moral design and its brilliant interplay of the forces of tradition and change, Mansfield Park is one of Austen's most complex and controversial works.
Includes an Introduction by Margaret Drabble
and an Afterword by Julia Quinn, author of the Bridgerton series
Jane Austen (1775-1817) was born in Hampshire, England, to George
Austen, a rector, and his wife, Cassandra. Like many girls of her
day, she was educated at home, where she began her literary career
by writing parodies and skits for the amusement of her large
family. Although Austen did not marry, she did have several suitors
and once accepted a marriage proposal, but only for an evening.
Although Austen never lived apart from her family, her work shows a
worldly and wise sensibility. Her novels include Sense and
Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park
(1814), Emma (1815), and Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, published
together posthumously in 1818.
Margaret Drabble is the highly acclaimed novelist, biographer, and
editor of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Her novels
include The Gates of Ivory, The Seven Sisters, and The Red Queen.
She lives in London.
Julia Quinn is the New York Times bestselling author of eighteen
historical romance novels, all of which take place in
early-nineteenth-century Great Britain. She is the recipient of the
RITA Award, romance's highest honor, and is a graduate of Harvard
and Radcliffe Colleges.
“Never did any novelist make more use of an impeccable sense of human values.”—Virginia Woolf
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"Never did any novelist make more use of an impeccable sense of human values."-Virginia Woolf
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