Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
ISBN: 9780099511861
Release Date: 07 Aug 2008
Average rating:   (read by 140 members)

Categories: General & literary fiction , Classic fiction

Fanny Price's rich relatives offer her a place in their home so that she can be properly brought up. However, Fanny's childhood is a lonely one as she is never allowed to forget her place. Her only ally is her cousin Edmund. When her cousins befriend two glamorous new young people who have arrived in the area, Henry and Mary Crawford, Edmund starts to grow close to Mary and Fanny finds herself dealing with feelings she has never experienced before.

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smiff
Rated it   2 months ago
My least favourite Austen. Most of the characters are unlikeable, with few if any redeeming features. Fanny Price is the most vapid, dull and terminally boring heroine in fiction who therefore cannot compensate for the lack of sympathetic characters...

hitchin9
Rated it   5 months ago
A great book with wonderful detail concerning the social norms governing England in the 1800s.

patriciab
Rated it   7 months ago
kind of boring though i loved pride and prejudice...

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