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Mansfield Park (Classic fiction) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jane Austen
Creators: Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Weber, Juliet Stevenson
Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks
Category: Book
List Price: £13.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 359780
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Abridged
Pages: 4
Number Of Items: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 4.9 x 1
ISBN: 9626340673
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9789626340677
ASIN: 9626340673
Publication Date: November 30, 1995
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Condition: New, shrinkwrapped Dispatched from UK.
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The Mansfield Park of the title, a magnificent, idyllic estate which is home to the wealthy Bertram family, stands as a bastion of English tradition and stability. The novel's heroine, Fanny Price, is a "poor relation" living with the Bertrams, acutely conscious of her inferior status and yet daring to love their son Edmund--but from afar. However, 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 critic Margaret Drabble has pointed out, the house becomes "full of the energies of discord--sibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion, and vanity," and the novel becomes ever more engrossing as it builds to Mansfield's final scandal and, finally, a satisfying conclusion. Unique in its moral design and brilliant interplay of the forces of tradition and change, Mansfield Park was the first novel of Jane Austen's maturity, and the first in which the author turned her unerring eye on the concerns of English society at a time of great upheaval.
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Mansfield Park - Jane Austen April 15, 2001
2 out of 12 found this review helpful
A thoroughly good read for any fan of the author, this is Jane Austen at her best. A delightful story of romance and society, Mansfield Park is one of of the classics!
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