Mansfield Park
a novel
Jane Austen, Kathryn Sutherland, Tony Tanner, Coralie Bickford-Smith, Claire Lamont
Readers rate it 3.6 (417 on Hardcover)
480 pages · Released 1846 · Simms and M'Intyre
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A note for parents
Mansfield Park is a classic coming-of-age romance exploring morality, social class, and personal integrity in Regency England. The novel rewards steadfast virtue, loyalty, and quiet strength while critiquing vanity and moral weakness. Sexual content is minimal and implicit rather than explicit, though adult themes around courtship, seduction, and infidelity are present. The dense 19th-century prose and focus on internal development suit mature teenage readers.
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From the publisher
Fanny Price is born to a poor family, but is sent to her mother's rich relations to be brought up with her cousins. There she is treated as an inferior by all except her cousin Edmund, whose kindness towards her earns him her steadfast love. Fanny is quiet and obedient and does not come into her own until her elder cou... Fanny Price is born to a poor family, but is sent to her mother's rich relations to be brought up with her cousins. There she is treated as an inferior by all except her cousin Edmund, whose kindness towards her earns him her steadfast love. Fanny is quiet and obedient and does not come into her own until her elder cousins leave the estate following a scandalous play put on in their father's absence. Fanny's loyalty and love is tested by the beautiful Crawford siblings. But their essentially weak natures and morals show them for what they really are, and allow Fanny to gain the one thing she truly desires.
Shelved under
- Love stories, English
- Fiction, Romance, Historical, Regency
- Social life and customs
- Adoptees, fiction
- Poor families, fiction
- Uncles, fiction
- Cousins, fiction
- English Love stories
- Criticism and interpretation
- Coming of age, fiction
- Country homes, fiction
- Social classes
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ISBN 9780141439808 · Simms and M'Intyre