Mansfield Park
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (890 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 014180467X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 174 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
When the Crawfords arrive in the neighbourhood, they bring the glamour of London life with them.. Taken from the poverty of her parents' home, 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
Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Pri
"It's One Heavy Book" according to KJC. So I just wanted to let others know that this collection is one giant book of all Austen novels combined. You can't tell from the picture, but I was actually expecting (and hoping for) individual books packed in one box like other book collections I have. So I was definitely a bit disappointed when I received this book. And while I am used to reading large books like David McCullough biographies, this compilation is by far the heaviest. Exceeded my Expectations Tremendously I tend to buy cheaper books because I like to underline things and write in the margins, so it'd be a waste to buy nice clothbound editions or hardcovers, and usually such modestly priced collections are on the cheaply manufactured side, with thin paper and thin print, since you're getting so much to the dollar (seven GREAT books along with good intro and other writings about her works), but that isn't the case here. This isn't merely . BettyLou said Mansfield Park. This is a very moving story about a young girl's plight during the 18th century. Children were treated as non-entities, and very little care was given to their feelings. At that time in history, everything was about personal standing in society, and that was determined by a person's wealth. Fanny Price, at the age of 10, is taken from her immediate family because she has none of either, and is placed in a situation with wealthy relatio