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- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
4 May 2003
Summary
Mansfield Park: A Study in Virtue and Society
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 Crawfords 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,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141439808 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141439807 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Jane Austen |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2003 |
| Weight: | 376g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 128mm x 199mm |
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“Never did any novelist make more use of an impeccable sense of human values.” –Virginia Woolf
“Never did any novelist make more use of an impeccable sense of human values.” –Virginia Woolf
About The Author
Jane Austen
Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature’s most famous women writers. She is also the author of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey.
Kathryn Sutherland is a reader in English at St Anne’s College, Oxford.
Tony Tanner was a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, and Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Cambridge.
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