Mansfield Park
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Mansfield Park by Jane AustenTaken from the poverty of her parents home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncles absence in Antigua, the Crawfords arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste for flirtation. Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austens first mature work and, with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, one of her most profound. The author of Mansfield Park, Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist whose seminal works, inspired by her own upbringing as well as in the landed gentry, have influenced successive generations. With a romantic vein, but nevertheless a realist-known for her style and ironic humor as well as for her fascinating depiction of womens domestic roles of the early nineteenth century-Austen wrote Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815), Northanger Abbey (1817), and Persuasion (1818), all of which replete with memorable protagonists.Editorial ReviewsReviewNever did any novelist make more use of an impeccable sense of human values.--Virginia WoolfAbout the AuthorJane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literatures most famous women writers. She is also the author of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.Chapter IAbout thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon,with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luckto captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park,in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raisedto the rank of a baronets lady, with all the comfortsand consequences of an handsome house and large income.All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match,and
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