Mansfield Park

by Jane Austen

418 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2003 by Oxford University Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-19-280264-4

(6 reviews)

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.

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melangell reviewed Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Review of 'Mansfield Park' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

This is my favourite Jane Austen novel and this time I listened to the audio book narrated by the wonderful Juliet Stevenson. A pleasure from start to finish.

On this read, I appreciated how this story has similarities to Pamela by Samuel Richardson (Austen's favourite author) and other stories where the immoral man is transformed into a decent person due to becoming sexually obsessed but rebuffed by a virtuous woman. But unlike those stories where the man eventually becomes the perfect husband, rewarding the woman's virtue, Austen shows that while the desire to conquer an unattainable woman may change someone's behaviour on the surface, it is based in vanity and entitlement and cannot truly make a change for the better. A breath of fresh air for the time.

Conbini reviewed Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (Oxford world's classics)

Review of 'Mansfield Park' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

slow start and more serious in tone then the earlier novels.....still Jane Austen makes you root for the main character and is always good for some sobbing along and the proverbial "they lived happily ever after"...