Mansfield Park

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Penguin Adult, 2006 - Fiction - 496 pages
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, 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. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste for flirtation. Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austen's first mature work and, with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, one of her most profound.

About the author (2006)

Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath, then to Southampton and finally to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing Pride and Prejudicewhen she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressionsand was initially rejected by the publishers and only published in 1813 after much revision. She published four of her novels in her lifetime, Sense and Sensibility(1811), Pride and Prejudice(1813), Mansfield Park(1814) and Emma(1816). Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817. Northanger Abbeyand Persuasionwere both published posthumously in 1818

Bibliographic information

TitleMansfield Park
Penguin red classics
Red classics
Wordsworth classics
AuthorJane Austen
Editionreprint
PublisherPenguin Adult, 2006
ISBN0141028149, 9780141028149
Length496 pages
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Fiction / Classics
Fiction / Family Life / General
Fiction / General
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Women
Literary Collections / General
Literary Criticism / General
  
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