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Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780140620665
ISBN number: 0140620664
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Page Count: 496
Printing Date: May 26, 1994
Publishing house: Penguin Classics
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Begun in 1811 at the height of Jane Austen's writing powers and published in 1814, 'Mansfield Park' marks a conscious break from the tone of her very first three novels, 'Northanger Abbey', 'Sense and Sensibility', and 'Pride and Prejudice', the last of which Austen came to see as 'rather too light.' Fanny Price is unlike any of Austen's previous heroines, a girl from a poor family brought up in a splendid country house and possessed of a vast reserve of moral fortitude and imperturbability. She is very different from Elizabeth Bennet, but is the product of the same inspired imagination.
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I am not really a Jane Austen fan per-se but I have to admit Mansfield Park is a top ten classic read and this particular edition has pride of place on my bookshelf.
Welcome to the world of Fanny Price, the impoverished niece of a English Baronet, Sir Thomas Bertram who is taken from her squalid overcrowded family home in Portsmouth and raised in abject gentility amongst her four cousins, Tom the heir to his father's estate, Edwin the spare to the heir and the two girls, the spiteful but spirited Maria and the air headed Julia.
Add to this brood, their mother, the indolent Lady Bertram who can only sit on a sofa with her pugs and look pretty (how she had four children in the very first place is beyond me!), her sister, the social climbing Mrs Norris who endeavors to put across a show of piety and and humility but is in fact and out and out snob who has no love for the gentle but surprisingly shrewd Fanny who fools everyone in the household and gets her man in the end.
This is what I love about Mansfield Park, on one level it is a love story in which the deserving heroine gets her man in the end after much trial and tribulation and even saves the day after a fashion. On another level it is darkly clever, with sharp portrayals of human nature in alls its prickly glory. The Crawfords are a brother and sister enjoying their personal fortunes by living recklessly and fashionably.
In turn another character Mr Rushworth is a buffoon who owns a manor house which turns a good income and with whom Julia marries not out of love but from avarice, her desire to "be someone" blinds her to her real passion, Mr Crawford who is happy to take what she offers him but not marry her even when they elope together, causing a terrible scandal in the family.
Comic distraction comes in the form of the aforesaid Mrs Norris who is wonderfully grotesque, she fawns over Lady Bertrams children, not one of them worth their salt, even Edwin who is likable but lets be honest he is just a milksop, puts Fanny down whenever she gets the chance, and sees her as the "lowest and the last" not even family really though she is her younger sister's daughter and also the niece of the indolent and worthless Lady Bertram.
All in all Mansfield Park is a very satisfying book, it has a few cliches but I would like to think that Austen has put these in her novel on purpose, deliciously witty, sparkling and full of intelligent humor, this is a book well worth its five stars and more.
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