Mansfield Park (Unabridged)

Written by JANE AUSTEN

Narrated by Maria Cusick

Mansfield Park is the third published novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1814 by Thomas Egerton. A second edition was published in 1816 by John Murray, still within Austen's lifetime. The novel did not receive any public reviews until 1821.
The novel tells the story of Fanny Price, starting when her overburdened family sends her at age ten to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle and following her development into early adulthood. From early on critical interpretation has been diverse, differing particularly over the character of the heroine, Austen's views about theatrical performance and the centrality or otherwise of ordination and religion, and on the question of slavery. Some of these problems have been highlighted in the several later adaptations of the story for stage and screen.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bookstream Audiobooks
• Release date: Nov 20, 2020
• ISBN: 9783991168096

JANE AUSTEN

Born in 1775, Jane Austen published four of her six novels anonymously. Her work was not widely read until the late nineteenth century, and her fame grew from then on. Known for her wit and sharp insight into social conventions, her novels about love, relationships, and society are more popular year after year. She has earned a place in history as one of the most cherished writers of English literature.

Reviews for Mansfield Park (Unabridged)

[misterphibbs · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Very well read, good individual character voices without overdramatizing. The recording is loud and clear enough to work perfectly for a slightly hard-of-hearing listener. Only flaw I can name (and it's tiny) and inconsequential -- a handful (4 or 5, perhaps, in this very long book) of tiny glitches when a flubbed line hasn't been cut from the final version.