Synopsis
Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results.
The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality, old-fashioned indifference and priggish disapproval of those around her.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- ISBN: 9781840227970
- Number of pages: 432
- Dimensions: 178 x 129 x 36 mm
- Weight: 419g
- Languages: English
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A Gentle story full of Interesting Observation
If your experience of Jane Austen heroines is Elizabeth Bennett then you will find Fanny Price insipid but stick with her. This novel is the transition fro... READ MORE
Mansfield Park
Juliet Stevenson is the perfect reader for this classic novel. She gives each character a believable unique voice, and brings Austen's language alive with ... READ MORE
Vignettes from a social milieu.
488pp plus Introduction make the bare bones of Austen's third novel. Building through accretions into chapter vignettes there's a lively intelligence behin... READ MORE
Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions
My first read of a Jane Austen novel. I really enjoyed the story. Really well written.
Ignore anyone who says this is a difficult read.
For me these so... READ MORE