| Mansfield Park Contributor(s): Austen, Jane (Author), Drabble, Margaret (Introduction by), Quinn, Julia (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 0451531116 ISBN-13: 9780451531117 Publisher: Signet Book OUR PRICE: $6.26 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: December 2008 Annotation: "Mansfield Park "encompasses not only Jane Austen's great comedic gifts and her genius as a historian of the human animal, but her personal credo as well--her faith in a social order that combats chaos through civil grace, decency, and wit. At the novel's center is Fanny Price, the classic "poor cousin," brought as a child to Mansfield Park by the rich Sir Thomas Bertram and his wife as an act of charity. Over time, Fanny comes to demonstrate forcibly those virtues Austen most admired: modesty, firm principles, and a loving heart. As Fanny watches her cousins Maria and Julia cast aside their scruples in dangerous flirtations (and worse), and as she herself resolutely resists the advantages of marriage to the fascinating but morally unsteady Henry Crawford, her seeming austerity grows in appeal and makes clear to us why she was Austen's own favorite among her heroines. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 840 |
| Series: Signet Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 4.2" W x 6.92" (0.44 lbs) 416 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 58702 Reading Level: 12.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 35.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Jane Austen turns her unerring eye on the concerns of English society at a time of great upheaval in this historical romance classic. Mansfield Park is named for the magnificent, idyllic estate that is home to the wealthy Bertram family and that serves as a powerful symbol of English tradition and stability. The novel's heroine, Fanny Price--a "poor relation" living with the Bertrams--is acutely conscious of her inferior status and yet she dares to love their son Edmund--from afar. With five marriageable young people on the premises, the peace at Mansfield cannot last. Courtships, entertainments, and intrigues throw the place into turmoil, and Fanny finds herself unwillingly competing with a dazzlingly witty and lovely rival. As Margaret Drabble points out in her incisive Introduction, the house becomes "full of the energies of discord--sibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion, and vanity," and the novel grows ever more engrossing right up to Mansfield's final scandal and the satisfying conclusion. Unique in its moral design and its brilliant interplay of the forces of tradition and change, Mansfield Park was the first novel of Jane Austen's maturity. With an Introduction by Margaret Drabble and an Afterword by Julia Quinn |