Mansfield Park - (Vintage Classics) by Jane Austen (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Fanny Price's rich relatives offer her a place in their home so that she can be properly brought up. However, Fanny's childhood is a lonely one as she is never allowed to forget her place. Her only ally is her cousin Edmund. When her cousins befriend two glamorous new young people who have arrived in the area, Henry and Mary Crawford, Edmund starts to grow close to Mary and Fanny finds herself dealing with feelings she has never experienced before.

Review Quotes

"Full of the energies of discord -- sibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion, and vanity." --Margaret Drabble
"Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire." --J.K. Rowling
"Austen looks at her world with a cool, undressing gaze... she is a formidable opponent of hypocrisy and sentimentality." --"Observer ""

- "Full of the energies of discord -- sibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion, and vanity." --Margaret Drabble
- "Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire." --J.K. Rowling
- "Austen looks at her world with a cool, undressing gaze... she is a formidable opponent of hypocrisy and sentimentality." --"Observer "

"Never did any novelist make more use of an impeccable sense of human values."
--Virginia Woolf

" Never did any novelist make more use of an impeccable sense of human values."
--Virginia Woolf

About the Author

Jane Austen (1775-1817) is also the author of Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, and Sense and Sensibility.