Mansfield Park: Jane Austen (Macmillan Collector's Library, 19) - Hardcover

Austen, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1909621714 ISBN 13: 9781909621718

Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library, 2016

Synopsis

Aged ten, Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthier relations, the Bertrams, at Mansfield Park. However, life there is not as she imagined. Treated with disdain by three of her cousins, she finds her only comfort in the kindness of the fourth, Edmund. As they grow, their friendship develops into romantic love - until the arrival of Henry Crawford and his charming sister Mary causes an emotional upheaval that no one in the family expects. With psychological insight and sparkling wit, Jane Austen paints an irresistibly lifelike portrait of shifting values and split loyalties.

This gorgeous edition of Mansfield Park is delightfully illustrated by the celebrated Hugh Thomson and includes an afterword by historian and author Nigel Cliff.

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Review:

This has been called Jane Austen's finest work but it is probably the least popular, due to the unsympathetic nature of her heroine, Fanny Price, who, it cannot be denied, is a smug little Goody Two-Shoes. This is the novel in which nasty Aunt Norris commits outrage after outrage and finally gets her come-uppance. But it also contains the incomparable Lady Bertram, idlest woman in fiction, and, in fat ill-tempered Pug, Jane Austen's only dog. Review by Ruth Rendell, whose crime novels include 'The Bridesmaid' --Kirkus UK

Book Description:

A beautiful hardback gift edition of Jane Austen's remarkable novel

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1909621714
• ISBN 13: 9781909621718
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 584
• Illustrator: Thomson Hugh