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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Penguin USA
Publication date
June 1, 1988
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780140430165
ISBN-10
0140430164
Dimensions
0.50 by 4 by 6 in.
Weight
0.50 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$6.95
Subjects
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
The private and social worlds of three families are revealed through the experiences of the heroine, Fanny Price
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 464pages. poche. Broché. Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons. Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain.
Editions
Paperback
from Springer Verlag (October 31, 2014)
9783642425073 | details & prices | List price $159.00
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With Tony Tanner (other contributor), Jane Austen |
Reprint edition from Penguin USA (June 1, 1988); titled "Mansfield Park"
9780140430165 | details & prices | 4.00 × 6.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $6.95
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About: The private and social worlds of three families are revealed through the experiences of the heroine, Fanny Price
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About: The private and social worlds of three families are revealed through the experiences of the heroine, Fanny Price
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