Mansfield Park (Wordsworth Collection) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Mansfield Park 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 heroine, Fanny Price, has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her feelings while enduring the amorality, old-fashioned indifference and priggish disapproval of those around her.
Full description- Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Published: 01 April 1998
- Format: Paperback 368 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Classics
- ISBN 13: 9781853260322 ISBN 10: 1853260320
- Sales rank: 6,136
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Reviews for Mansfield Park
don't start your Austen reading here
It is a peculiar case: some very interesting characters and family dynamics, with a wealth of layered detail, but I found the basic social message of the book rather uncongenial. Austen's heroine is Fanny Price, informally adopted by her rich uncle and aunt; Fanny is generally passive and when she expresses an opinion tends towards priggishness (with the author's full approval); the stable conservative world of Mansfield Park is under threat from the cosmopolitan horrors of London, but Fanny supports the resistance. Most of the climactic events take place off-screen in the last few chapters, which is a bit unsatisfying. (Also the kind rich uncle clearly has made his money thanks to slavery.) The book does have its points of interest, but I would advise anyone thinking of casual dabbling in Austen to stick to Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion. by Nicholas Whyte
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