Jane Austen

Mansfield Park Jane Austen

Jacket Description/Back: Mansfield Park is a study of three families-the Bertrams, the Crawfords, and the Prices-with the isolated figure of the heroine, Fanny Price, at its center. Fanny's quiet passivity, her steadfast loyalty and love for the son of the family who regard her as the poor relation, and who have taken her under their roof, are not appreciated until they are tried against the brilliant and witty Mary and Henry Crawford, the unfortunate consequences of whose influence are felt by everyone. Review Quotes: "Never did any novelist make more use of an impeccable sense of human values."--Virginia Woolf"From the Trade Paperback edition."Review Quotes: " Never did any novelist make more use of an impeccable sense of human values." --Virginia Woolf "From the Trade Paperback edition."Publisher Marketing: Adopted into the household of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, Fanny Price grows up a meek outsider among her cousins in the unaccustomed elegance of Mansfield Park. Soon after Sir Thomas absents himself on estate business in Antigua (the family's investment in slavery and sugar is considered in the Introduction in a new, post-colonial light), Mary Crawford and her brother Henry arrive at Mansfield, bringing with them London glamour, and the seductive taste for flirtation and theatre that precipitates a crisis. While Mansfield Park appears in some ways to continue where Pride and Prejudice left off, it is, as Kathryn Sutherland shows in her illuminating Introduction, a much darker work, which challenges 'the very values (of tradition, stability, retirement and faithfulness) it appears to endorse'. This new edition provides an accurate text based, for the first time since its original publication, on the first edition of 1814. Review Citations:

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 34 (EAN 9780679412694, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 24 (EAN 9780679412694, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 28 (EAN 9780679412694, Hardcover)

Audio File 04/01/2009 pg. 58 (EAN 9781400106912, Compact Disc)

Audio File 04/01/2009 pg. 58 (EAN 9781400136919, Compact Disc)

School Library Journal 08/01/1998 (EAN 9780553479461, Analog Audio Cassette)

Library Journal 02/01/1996 pg. 104 (EAN 9780679601944, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Austen, Jane One of England's most beloved authors, Jane Austen wrote such classic novels as Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Northanger Abbey. Published anonymously during her life, Austen's work was renowned for its realism, humour, and commentary on English social rites and society at the time. Austen's writing was supported by her family, particularly by her brother, Henry, and sister, Cassandra, who is believed to have destroyed, at Austen's request, her personal correspondence after Austen's death in 1817. Austen's authorship was revealed by her nephew in A Memoir of Jane Austen, published in 1869, and the literary value of her work has since been recognized by scholars around the world. Contributor Bio:  Conrad, Peter Peter Conrad is Tutor in English at Christ Church College, Oxford.