Mansfield Park

by Jane Austen

ISBN: 0734301464

COVER: Paperback 11cm x 18cm

PAGES: 410

CONDITION: Good: light shelf and reading wear.

c? 1999 edition

WEIGHT: 350g (letter rate)

At the age of ten, shy, vulnerable Fanny Price leaves behind her impoverished family in Portsmouth to go and live with her rich relatives at Mansfield Park.

Growing up with her cousins Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia, she is aware that she is different from them and that her place in society cannot be taken for granted, although she is not treated unkindly. A dashing couple from London, Mary Crawford and her brother Henry, enter this stable, rural world. They succeed in dazzling everyone at Mansfield Park, except for Fanny, who sees through their shallow veneer. Throughout the dramatic events that follow it is she who is able to bring back some stability to the ruptured lives of those around her.

One of the great novels of the nineteenth century, Mansfield Park echoes Jane Austen's fears and awareness of the dawn of modern age, which was to bring about a complete break from the old century traditions and way of life.

 Thanks for your interest.