Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Used
- ISBN 10
- 0140434143
- ISBN 13
- 9780140434149
- Seller
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About This Item
Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's most profound and perplexing novel.
Adopted into the household of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, Fanny Price grows up a meek outsider among her cousins in the unaccustomed elegance of Mansfield Park. Soon after Sir Thomas absents himself on estate business in Antigua (the family's investment in slavery and sugar is considered in the Introduction in a new, post-colonial light), Mary Crawford and her brother Henry arrive at Mansfield, bringing with them London glamour, and the seductive taste for flirtation and theatre that precipitates a crisis.
While Mansfield Park appears in some ways to continue where Pride and Prejudice left off, it is, as Kathryn Sutherland shows in her illuminating Introduction, a much darker work, which challenges "the very values (of tradition, stability, retirement and faithfulness) it appears to endorse". This new edition provides an accurate text based, for the first time since its original publication, on the first edition of 1814.
Synopsis
Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, written at Chawton Cottage between 1812 and 1814. It was published in July 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who published Jane Austen's two earlier novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. When the novel reached a second edition, its publication was taken over by John Murray, who also published its successor, Emma.
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- Bookseller
- Fay Tsapoga (GR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18
- Title
- Mansfield Park
- Author
- Jane Austen
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140434143
- ISBN 13
- 9780140434149
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- England
- Date Published
- 1996
- Pages
- 432
- Keywords
- Literature
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