Mansfield Park
$33.75
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2001
Summary
Through Fanny Price, the heroine of Mansfield Park, Jane Austen views the social mores of her day and contemplates human nature itself. A shy and sweet-tempered girl adopted by wealthy relations, Fanny is an outsider looking in on an unfamiliar, and often inhospitable, world. But Fanny eventually wins the affection of her benefactors, endearing herself to the Bertram family and the reader alike.
In her Introduction, Carol Shields writes, “Mansfield Park’s overriding theme is difficult…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375757815 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375757813 |
| Author: | Jane Austen, Carol Shields |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Edition: | 2001st |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2001 |
| Weight: | 358g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 134mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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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
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Carol Shields is the author of Jane Austen (Penguin Lives), The Stone Diaries, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize, Larry’s Party, Happenstance, and Dressing Up for the Carnival, among other novels. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
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