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    Mansfield Park (Jane Austen Collection)
    Mansfield Park (Jane Austen Collection)
    Mansfield Park (Jane Austen Collection)
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    Mansfield Park (Jane Austen Collection)

    By Jane Austen

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    Jane Austen’s third novel follows ten-year-old Fanny Price, whose penniless family sends her to live with her wealthy relatives. Shy and ignored, Fanny is treated unkindly by her cousins, her two aunts, and her uncle. As Fanny grows up, scandals and tragedies plague the family. The story of a young woman trying to find her place in society, this classic coming of age story was revolutionary for its time.

    The Mansfield Park Jane Austen Edition is a beautiful and unique special edition, perfect for book collectors, Jane Austen lovers, and fans of classic literature. Whether you’re buying this as a gift or as for yourself, this remarkable edition features:

    • Decorative interior pages featuring quotes distributed throughout
    • Part of a 6-volume Jane Austen series including Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Persuasion

    Mansfield Park by Jane Austen is one of three inaugural titles in the Jane Austen collection and also includes Northanger Abbey and Pride and Prejudice. The series will conclude with Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Persuasion.

     

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateMar 14, 2023
    ISBN9780785293392
    Mansfield Park (Jane Austen Collection)
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    Jane Austen

    Jane Austen (1775–1817) was an English novelist whose work centred on social commentary and realism. Her works of romantic fiction are set among the landed gentry, and she is one of the most widely read writers in English literature.

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    • 3/5
      Published in 1814, this book tells the story of protagonist Fanny Price. She is sent to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt but is not treated well. In an age where “marrying well” is expected, she stands up for herself and says “no” to a man who is obviously out to deceive her, even though others think he would be a good match. The storyline is not particularly eventful and contains many digressions. For example, there is a large segment dedicated to rehearsing a play that ends up being canceled. There are lots of social interactions and conversations. I liked it well enough, but my favorites remain Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Northanger Abbey. I think Jane Austen would be pleased to know that her books are being read and enjoyed over 200 years after publication.
    • 3/5
      Couldn't finish this one when I tried in the midst of teaching duties, despite hearing a UK expert expound on it a Breadloaf. One problem with the expert, her British tic of LOWERING her voice on important points--utterly eliminating my hearing them. But I find this un-Austenian, expansive, landscape-oriented, with various writing complications in addition to her great irony. Now in retirement, I am slowly making my way through, find it larger scale, like a lesser Middlemarch. Less compact than Austen's others, and more diffuse in characters: three principal sisters, two of them birthing sisters. Even the sisters meet other sisters. After half the novel, the plot focuses on the Priceless Miss Price. Fanny Price emerges from a shy and withdrawn young girl who loves reading, to an unexpected authority and teacher for her younger sister Susan, the only one of multiple siblings who values her elder sister's independence and insights. Fanny's loud-voiced father drinks during the day, and from 6:30 to 9:30 PM, "there was little intermission of noise and grog"(Ch.42, p. 554). Sir Tom Bertram'seldest son Tom also drinks, which causes a fall and leads to his long sickness (560). Perhaps this novel satirizes drinking more than her others, and portrays the clergy, Edmund, better.Loving reading, the author quotes writers she grew up with, like Goldsmith; she even adapts Samuel Johnson to contrast Fanny's two residences: "Fanny was tempted to apply to them Dr. Johnson's celebrated judgement as to matrimony and celibacy, and say, that though Mansfield Park might have some pains, Portsmouth could have no pleasures"(Ch.39, end, p.544).Not just less focused and longer than other Austen novels, Mansfield Park grows difficult as she applies too many of her usual abstractions:"...might be supposed to have in her wish for a complete reconciliation. This was not an agreeable intimation. Nature resisted it for a while. It would have been a vast deal pleasanter to have had her more disinterested in her attachment; but his vanity was not of a strength to fight long against reason"(577*).Our novel starts abundantly, with Austen's lifelong irony on knowledge versus self-knowledge in three sisters: "with all their promising talents, [that] they should be entirely deficient in the less common acquirements of self-knowledge. In everything but disposition, they were admirably taught"(371). One of three sisters catches Sir Tom Bertram, a baronet, the next finds a clergyman Rev. Norris, destined to be hired by her brother in law, and the third, Miss Frances throws herself away on a military man, and has, we later learn to our dismay, nine children. In Austen social position and fiscal relations are always part of identity.Then comes the disaster of land improvers, landscape architects, which doom the less astute, and maybe the story as a whole (386). A certain Mr Rushworth has recently visited Compton (we live near "Little Compton" in RI) whose grounds were laid out "by an improver. Mr. Rushworth was returned with his head full of the subject, and very eager to be improving his own place." Gaining general conversation in few pages, "the subject of improving grounds, was still under consideration by the others"(390). Mansfield Park includes a real park, five miles around.Austen delights with almost a legal definition of seduction, "A young woman, pretty, lively, with a harp as elegant as herself, and both placed near a window cut down to the ground and opening on a little lawn, surrounded by shrubs in the rich foliage of summer, was enough to catch any man's heart"(392).When the rich competitor keeps Fanny Price's horse--and her admired Edmund-- too long, she brings it the half mile home from the Parsonage, with the Janey irony, "Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure"(394). (Sounds rather Trumpy to an American in 2021.)One learns English social customs of the period, where a young man must not speak to the younger of two daughters, "I had been giving all my attention to the youngest, who was not 'out,' and had most excessively offended the eldest"(386). The custom of public libraries grew from subscription libraries, which Fanny joins in her birthplace Portsmouth when away from Mansfield's library for three months. Austen portrays many ceremonies, as "the solemn procession of teaboard, urn and cake-bearers"(521). After dinner there are cards, whist and others, which surprised me by always involving gambling (shillings then substantial, pence for the others).Austen shows evil and good largely imbued in conversation: listening to her fiancée, "Maria [was] doomed to the repeated details of his day's sport, his boast of his dogs, his jealousy of his neighbors, his zeal after poachers"(Ch.12, 416).The daughter and sister of a cleric, Austen often satirizes priests, less so in this novel, where the admirable younger son Edmund Bertram is ordained in Peterborough cathedral, near where we met our great friend on the Dutch barge pub. Fanny's Naval brother William, who sails from Portsmouth, has cold pork and mustard for breakfast to his rich cousin's eggs. Others stay in Weymouth, where we have lived a month five times. The novel has a "happy ending" which is illegal in twenty-four US states, and criminal in five.PS: As always in Austen, British words have different, and specific, meaning: "toilet" is make-up; "living" is a clerical benefice (in this novel, Dr. Grant moves to another church, but retains the previous benefice until he dies and it transfers to Edmund); "want" is lack; "complacency" often means pleasure; the verb to "frank" is to attach postage; "knocked up" not pregnant, just tired. In prepositional usage, to go "down" dances, rather than to go "through" them, game "on" cards, for game "of" cards.*Pagination from the Crown hardback of all her novels, "Jane Austen: Her Complete Novels" (Avenel: NY, 1981) which I bought in Princeton, 24 Mar 1984.
    • 5/5
      A reread for the - I'm not sure, 4th time? Mansfield Park used to be my least favorite Austen book (which still means I loved it) but it grows on me every time I read it. I now think it's actually one of her more mature books, with tons of opportunity to read between the lines, really interesting set up of believable characters, and lots of subtle humor and authorial commentary. Fanny herself has also grown on me. She is often described as meek and mild and maddeningly won't ever put herself first. But I didn't see her that way on this reading. I saw that she is quiet and introverted and has been taught that her opinion isn't wanted, but her interior comments are quite perceptive and intelligent. And humanizing her even more, her interior thoughts, when revealed, are often self-centered, can be petty, and stubborn. I like this.Also, a really large part of me wanted Henry Crawford to succeed with Fanny this time and become the person he thought he could be with her. First time to feel that way too!I happily look forward to my next rereading of this book.
    • 4/5
      Digital audiobook narrated by Johanna Ward Miss Fanny Price is taken in by her rich relation, Sir Thomas Bertram, and his wife as an act of charity. Her family is poor and with seven children, resources are simply stretched too thin. Fanny is a quiet, sensible, obedient little thing, and grows into a quiet, sensible, graceful young woman. Her two cousins, Sir Thomas’s daughters Maria and Julia treat her well, but are far more interested in their own prospects. And there are several eligible, if not completely suitable, young men in the neighborhood. Ah, but I love spending time with Austen. Fanny is perhaps the ideal heroine, and reportedly Austen’s own favorite among her heroines. She is intelligent and thoughtful, pretty and graceful, keeps her own counsel, is modest and principled, and still has a loving heart. A couple of the gentlemen in the area seem interested in Fanny – she is very pretty, after all, and Sir Thomas is bound to leave her some money. But Fanny would rather be alone than marry a man she cannot love and respect. There is a certain predictable pattern to Austen’s novels, and this one is no exception. Our heroine will remain true to herself, and love will triumph. Johanna Ward does a marvelous job of narrating the audiobook. She brings Austen’s witty dialogue to life.
    • 5/5
      Another thoroughly enjoyable Austen novel. Three sisters marry very different people, and the poorest sister sends one of her daughters to live with the sister who married a baronet. Fanny grows up in a privileged household and encounters many different young people to whom different adventures occur. It isn't one's birth status that makes a person's character what it can be. Sometimes the wealthiest do the oddest things. I always enjoy this glimpse into life during the early 1800s in England.
    • 5/5
      Miss Frances, the youngest Ward sister, "married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a lieutenant of marines, without education, fortune, or connections, did it very thoroughly. She could hardly have made a more untoward choice." Some years later, pregnant with her ninth child, Mrs. Price appeals to her family, namely to her eldest sister and her husband, Sir Thomas Bertram, for help with her over-large family. Sir Thomas provides assistance in helping his nephews into lines of work suitable to their education, and takes his eldest niece, Fanny Price, then ten years old, into his home to raise with his own children. It is Fanny's story we follow in Mansfield Park.
    • 3/5
      It was fine. Word of warning: not at all like the movie with Frances O'Connor. If you love Fanny Price in that movie...well, good luck with the book.
    • 1/5
      I cannot believe that the same author who wrote Pride and Prejudice wrote this drivel. After reading about the delightful, witty Elizabeth Bennett, what a come down this was. Fanny Price is a whiney, whimpy mouse of a character, forever going off to cry, afraid of giving offense so much that she can't say what she really wants or thinks. And the boring conversations!!!! OMG I was really tempted to throw this across the room, except I was reading it on my iPad, and didn't feel like having to buy another one. It was not until about 50 pages were left before anything really happened that was not insipid crap or self-pitying asides. After a story where the heroine was in charge of herself, it was excruciating to have to listen to the inner dialogs of a character who just floated through life letting other people make her decisions for her. The only time she showed any backbone was when she refused an offer of marriage, but then she wouldn't tell anybody why, so again, crying jags all over the place and terror that people would keep telling her to marry the guy. I wanted to dope slap her upside the head.
    • 5/5
      What can’t be said about Jane Austen? A classic in it’s own right, this novel is a study in the lives of the Bertram family as seen by their ward and niece, Fanny Brice. The picture perfect presentation on the outside has little to do with what goes on inside the family home whether it’s scandalous liaisons, horrific secrets, or funny inner dialog.

      Each character is crafted to illustrate several character traits including vanity, sloth, avarice, malignant intent, and others. Austen rather wonderfully pits each character against others and themselves leaving several moments of clarity in the story where a character has an opportunity to do right or wrong and their choice ultimately leads to their rise or ruin.

      The story is a mixture of moral tale, coming of age, and a couched indictment of slave ownership which also falls into the genre of a novel of manners. Sir Bertram owns a plantation and slaves in the Caribbean which pervades and hangs over the story throughout and though Austen never speaks about slavery directly nor includes political opinion in general in any novel, Sir Bertram’s business is mentioned as how the family attained their fortune. As the main protagonist, Fanny Price is shown growing up in a situation common in the era - fostering. Each character has a moral dilema placed before them in some manner and must chose how to act and receive the consequences of their choices.

      The writing style is quite witty but some readers may find it difficult to put Regency English into perspective as they read. Jokes and other humorous moments may go past without knowing due to language derivative.

      I would recommend Mansfield Park to beginning readers of period literature.

      *All thoughts and opinions are my own.*
    • 3/5
      This is my least favorite of Austen's novels. I liked the first part a lot, then somewhere around the middle it started to fall flat for me. I felt sorry for Fanny in the beginning. Later in the story I just found her annoying. The lack of connection I had with the characters is the reason I found this book to be just so-so. This is a reread for a book club. It has been 40+ years since I had read it and had forgotten lots of the stuff that went on. I had even forgotten about the kerfuffle over the play! Don't know how I managed to forget. In my defense, it has been a long time since I first read this book. A lot of people loved this one. However, I can honestly say this is just not my cup of tea.
    • 5/5
      I was inspired to reread this by watching the movie and wondering just how much of its slavery subplot was text in the original and how much subtext. The answer is: absolutely none: it's neither text nor subtext because Mansfield Park is an inherently extremely personal novel; the movie's made it all up out of whole cloth. Which is fine of course, and possibly even necessary since the book takes place so much inside Fanny's head it's pretty impossible to replicate the experience on screen. Fanny doesn't do much, and chooses less; she never gets off any devastating ripostes to Mrs Norris; it's a far subtler story about her surviving with her soul intact despite a host of people determined to use her and grind her down; about her growing the strength to do so, and I think learning to trust her own judgement as Edmund eventually realises he should have after she's been amply vindicated.
    • 4/5
      160/2020. Too much telling and not enough showing.
    • 2/5
      Mansfield Park is one of Jane Austen's later novels. Its heroine is Fanny Price, a poor cousin who came to live with the Bertram family as a young girl. She grows up surrounded by cousins Tom, Edmund, Maria, and Julia, and is largely relegated to serving as companion to their mother. In its portrayal of class differences it bears resemblance to Pride and Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility. Jane Austen displays her usual talent for satirizing English society. But this novel has a more somber undertone, a moral dimension exploring the choices made by each of the young people, and the consequences thereof.Unfortunately, I found this book hard work. I had neutral to negative feelings about all of the characters. Fanny Price came across as mousy and boring; the other women were insipid. Men were cast in typical roles: wealthy handsome cads, kind clergy, etc. And the plot moved at a snail's pace. Whether it was a visit to the country, the staging of a play, or a trip to town, Austen stretched the story on for pages and pages. Having enjoyed most of Austen's other work, I had high hopes for Mansfield Park but found myself skimming towards the end, just to be done with it.
    • 3/5
      My copy of Mansfield Park contained a biography of Austen, a timeline of what was happening during Austen's short life, and an introduction.I have to admit, Mansfield Park is not my favorite Austen novel. All the characters seem sniveling and persnickety. Fanny Price is a victim, first of poverty; then a victim of her family's snobbery as they take her in and abuse her for the sake of morality. Her cousin, Edmund, is the only decent chap. One could argue that Austen was only commenting on the life she keenly observed.
    • 4/5
      One of the lesser known novels by Jane Austen. The film made in 1999 was very poor and gives a false impression of Fanny Price's character and of the main action of the book. Anyone who has ever had an interfering or overbearing relative will appreciate the delineation of Aunt Norris. Anyone who has a weak, vacillating, self-indulgent friend or relative will appreciate the delineation of Aunt Bertram. This edition includes the text of the play, Lover's Vows, which became a bone of contention during an extended house party, as well as footnote, illustrations and an essay about the difficulties of travel by coach during this period.
    • 4/5
      Fanny is definitely my favourite Austen woman...we'll definitely top 3. This book meant more to me this time around than any previous time if read it. As always Austen seems to go on about parts that truly do not add to the story and sometimes a lackluster ending ensues. I adore this novel but I am not immune to the facts that it's not always the strongest. Also Ed took his sweet time and I'll admit it wasn't as glamorous a admittance of love as some of other Austen's leading men
    • 5/5
      With an ever-growing family, Fanny Price is sent from her home in Portsmouth to live with her aunt and uncle at Mansfield Park. There she is embroiled into the personal intrigues of the individuals living on that country estate and despite her shy and demure manner, strives to fulfill the desires of her heart.Jane Austen is one of my favourite authors and I love all her books but I must admit that Mansfield Park is my least favourite. In contrast to all of her strong and sparkling heroines, Fanny is a bit of a disappointment. Her strength of convictions are admirable but she's not particularly interesting with all of the hiding, blushing, crying, and sighing over Edmund. And Edmund, who is nominally our hero, isn't particularly worth swooning over either.The best part of this novel is the supporting characters. Austen is brilliant at creating delightfully horrible society monsters. Between Mary Crawford's poor sense of what's proper (her joke about Rears and Vices in the Navy is my favourite in the entire book), the Bertram sisters who have every appearance of virtue but don't actually possess any, and the stingy-to-a-fault and expert at passive-aggressive put-downs, Mrs Norris, there is a wealth of character flaws to contribute to the plot. My personal favourite, however, is Henry Crawford a cad who tries to reform to win Fanny but ends up falling prey to his own vanity.There are also some intriguing themes that creep into this novel. Adultery, the nature of ambition and wealth, and extremely subliminal and more discussed in academic circles is the fact that the wealth of Mansfield Park is built entirely from their plantations in Antigua, where slavery was still rampant. While not the brightest item in the set of Austen's novels, there's still plenty to enjoy.
    • 4/5
      A master storyteller at the height of her powers with Mansfield Park the superior textual quality of Austen's writing and her skill at distilling what possesses the heart & mind of each of her characters whilst exploring societal issues of the era alongside gracefully set out background is apparent on every page.My one reservation is this particular publication's really AWFUL Cover!
    • 4/5
      Not my favorite Jane Austen book. The heroine is too perfect and the characters are not as interesting and multidimensional as in other Jane Austen books.
    • 5/5
      This girl does have a way with words.. Once you leave the 21st century and relax into the flow of of Fanny Price's world you are treated to a subtle and insightful view of the lives of the "rich and famous" albiet 200 years ago. Certainly not a fast paced story but the characters are interesting (if not always liked) and the good guys win.
    • 4/5
      Nine-year-old Fanny Price is sent to live with more well off relatives. The book follows Fanny and her family over the next ten or so years. The plot is limited but the characters are rich - Fanny, her aunts and uncle, four cousins and a couple of neighbors are described and developed in full detail. Compared to some of Austen's other characters, Fanny is quite timid and frail. She has a champion in her cousin Edward, who looks out for her in many situations. Some have said this book is too subtle. I found it to be more direct than Pride and Prejudice. In spots it takes on an almost preachy tone, and all the preaching is done by speech of the various characters. Mansfield Park is a slow read, and wasn't a page turner for me. That said, Austen's reflections on human nature and the human experience are just as valid today as they were 200 years ago. Austen is quite the idealist, but not in a bad way. People do influence each other, for good or ill, and character counts, then and now.
    • 2/5
      While I admire Jane Austen’s eloquent language, a gripping plot is not in evidence here. I didn’t expect fast-paced excitement, but did hope for something deeper.Although I found the heroine of the piece endearing, she’s too placid and timid to add any sparkle to the tale.My attention was held by various interesting scenes, and because of these I intended to rate the book three stars, until I read the last chapter. Without giving anything away, this is among the poorest closing chapters I’ve read by any author. Not because of what happens, but because of how the final events are presented. Nothing is dramatized. The third-person narrator *tells* us what happened, so we don’t get to *see* any of it.
    • 5/5
      Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park has been on my bookshelves for years and I took it away on holiday thinking I might get round to reading it at last. A couple of novels later and I started in on Austen’s longest book and found that I could hardly put it down. A beach read, it is not as it presents problems for the modern reader that must be overcome, before enjoyment completely takes hold, but when it does it provides an immensely satisfying read. Banyuls-sur-Mere is a pretty little town on the French Mediterranean coast and one that I love to visit, but this trip will be remembered for the time I spent on the balcony of my holiday apartment clutching my copy of Mansfield Park. I had no internet connection and so there were no distractions, but this meant also that I could not google for background information and so this first reading was very much a first impression. I have read other novels by Jane Austen and so it was not a complete leap in the dark, but it did lead me to think of issues that modern readers might face, when approaching this book for the first time. Austen’s sentence structure and syntax can be a little confusing, especially when she is reporting conversation. It is not always easy to understand who is saying what to whom: she also writes the occasional word in a paragraph in italics which I presume is for emphasis, but this style is not much used today. An omniscient author writes the first three chapters and by this time Fanny Price (the heroine) is approaching seventeen; most of the subsequent events are seen through her eyes, however Austen does add her own commentary from time to time and the reader has to be aware whether the views expressed are authorial or those which Fanny might be saying or thinking.The novel was published in 1814 at a time when Europe was still engaged in the Napoleonic wars, the French revolution was still very much in the minds of many educated people and Austen’s novel reads for the most part like a celebration of English traditions and manners. It is almost as though the industrial revolution had not yet taken place as the novel is firmly situated amongst the genteel rich patrons of the English countryside. The class system is firmly in place and in Austen’s characters views, everybody should know their place and more importantly for the most part keep to it; rights according to birth are sacrosanct. It is a novel that looks backwards to a golden age rather than forward to a changing society, respect for ones betters according to birthright is the accepted norm.In Austen’s world family and property defines who you are and people are judged by their manners, politeness and how well they do by their family. The family grows rich together and marriages are seen as a means of enhancing a family’s connections: arrangements are made and while suitability is a consideration; love is something that may develop in time, but is mostly accepted as not being prerequisite for an ideal marriage. Feminism has no place in this society and although readers might be encouraged to admire the resolve of female characters, they will find them castigated if they stray too far from accepted family values.The profession of clergymen was still at this time the most likely avenue for the second son of a well to do family. In Mansfield Park the first son (Tom) will inherit everything and so it is Edmund who will follow the traditional career path as the second son. For Edmund being a clergyman is a vocation. He sees it as a unifying force within his community and he will do his best to succeed in guiding his flock for the betterment of mankind, prayers, sermons and preaching are essential requisites for the community. Edmund is the steady hand of tradition in his family and the son most admired. Throughout the novel there is resistance to change. The fashion for landscape gardens advocated by Henry Crawford is a step to far for Edmund. Sir Thomas Bertram head of the family is an authoritarian figure who immediately puts a stop to a theatrical event at his house. Fanny Price the adopted daughter of the Bertram household is perhaps the most resistant of all to change and it is she as the central character that seems to pose the most problems for readers. She is non-assertive, meek, mild and an upholder of family values. She seems always to put other people first and suffers in silence as a result. But this novel is essentially a bildungsroman and Fanny Price’s development as a person becomes a shinning example to some of those around her; Edmund, Tom, her brother William, Sir Thomas himself are all affected by her good heart, her respectability and finally an inner strength. She is the embodiment of all that a woman should be to fit into this patriarchal society and this in depth study demonstrates the qualities and strengths needed to uphold the values in which she instinctively believes.The raison d’être for the novel is of course a romance. The Bertram family have two sons and two daughters of marriageable age. Maria Bertram the beauty of the family marries for money and position, with the wholehearted support of the family, her sister Julia tries to make her own opportunities. Edmund falls in love with Miss Mary Crawford a society woman of independent means, but she does not wish to marry a clergyman. The central love story is Mary’s brother the forward looking wealthy Henry Crawford who falls in love with Fanny after a dalliance with the two Bertram sisters. A match that would seem to be a superb opportunity for an adopted daughter with few prospects. Fanny against all advice rejects Henry, she finds him fascinating, with some good qualities, but she does not love him and most seriously of all she cannot trust him. The third part of the novel is Henry’s continued pursuit of Fanny; a suit that causes her grief and pain. Austen takes her readers into the world of Regency splendour. The culture and manners of that society are brilliantly evoked. There are some amazing set pieces; the amateur production of the play Lovers Vows, Fanny’s first trip out with her new family to Sotherton, her coming out ball and her banishment back to her working class family in Portsmouth. At the centre of everything is Fanny Price’s world and inner world views. It is steady, respectable, dutiful and gracious, which makes her at times seem almost an anti-heroine, she is physically weak and lacks assertiveness, but her strength is her firm belief in tradition and family values.To appreciate this novel fully one must not judge Mansfield Park by modern standards or by equality of opportunity. It is a different world brought richly to life and full of characters whose human frailties can be ameliorated by a central character; a virtuous woman working away quietly amongst them. The story is a good one, once the reader gets used to the writing style and has got further into the novel than the story setting it becomes a page turner. So much to enjoy, a fabulous reading experience and five stars.
    • 3/5
      "Here's harmony!" said she; "here's repose! Here's what may leave all painting and all music behind, and what poetry only can attempt to describe! Here's what may tranquilize every care, and lift the heart to rapture! When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene."In “Mansfield Park” by Jane AustenMany eons ago I was reading Austen's "Mansfield Park" in high school when the leader of a group of teenagers commented on the "puff with the specs reading girlie books." I paid him no mind at that particular moment. I waited till I could catch him alone in the playground without his bunch of cronies around him. I asked him then if he'd care to repeat what he'd said before. He said he didn't. The old adage you can't judge a book by its cover surely applies to the title as well. What's next? Nick Hornby's "About a Boy" should only appeal to paedophiles? "Animal Farm" to sheep-shaggers (or more accurately pig-shaggers). Such immature, hating comments belong in the 1970s.My favourite books? "Jane Eyre", "Madame Bovary" and "Sister Wendy's Book of Saints" are in my top 100. And, yes, I am male. And yes, I would happily walk into a crowded bookshop and order the aforementioned books without feeling emasculated. Personally I am not sure the supposed "girly" title of a book has ever made me sneak up to the counter ashamedly to buy the book, nor has an overtly "mannish" title made be puff out my chest and slam in down on the counter. It seems a long time ago now since such base gender divisions have mattered. With the rise of the metro-sexual, moisturising cream and Russell Brand dictating what half of London wears, I just can't think that a lot of modern men would be concerned by a title such as "Persuasion", or "Emma". Not enough to not consider reading past the title and at least having a glance at the back cover anyhow. If I think back, I was never embarrassed to read a "girly" title on the tube and they were the formative years of my teens. However, at the time, I also had long hair, Doc Martens and listened to Queensrÿche. I am man. I eat meat, sleep and breed. I don't like pink and I don't like art galleries. I like football. - We don't all think like this, just a few men but don't worry these men don't read books, they read glossy magazines at the dentist. So next time someone grunts when you offer him two titles, don't entertain his masculinity - he'll only like that. Instead point him to the magazine rack. There'll he can read Zoo to his hearts content.To see Jane Austen's novel as romantic rubbish is pretty short-sighted. On the surface some readers may be right but what she really was writing about was the society she lived in and how it worked. It's a depiction of her reality and in many instances, and it's also critique of that world. Not in your face but most her novels have a strong ironic tone. She wrote novels of behaviour and about society in the early 1800s. People misunderstand her books because she paints on such a small canvas. It's like comparing a jewelled miniature by Nicholas Hilliard to a huge Titian canvas, full of life and swagger. The small scale makes it easy to overlook things or to misunderstand them, but in fact there's an awful lot more going on in an Austen book than meets the casual eye. I like Fanny Price, although she's not a character I'd like to have a cuppa with but a great one to read about. I always admired her for refusing Henry Crawford without spilling the beans. Fanny Price is not "prim". Repressed and dutiful certainly. There is a different word beginning with "p" that describes her to a tee: petrified. She knows she isn't a full member of the family, hence her repression and dutifulness, and at all times feels and is made to feel that she could be dismissed back to her parents' over full house at a moments notice. That is why I believe she opposes and is expected to oppose the staging of the play while her uncle is away. In a sense she has been trained to be the guardian, governess and companion but never the full complete member of the household. Emma, though is a prize cow, a big fish in a little pond and I always skip her in my annual Jane Austen re-read.NB: I like football. But I'm a rugger at heart.
    • 5/5
      I adored Mansfield Park! Yes -- the story gets off to a slow start, but you will reap an abundance of rewards in return for your patience. The book is downright funny at times. Mrs. Norris amuses as a stuffy, obsequious, and presumptuous busy-body, and Austen does a great job painting lazy Lady Bertram. Whatever did Sir Thomas see in her? In her usual understated manner, the author allows us to witness how Edmond and Fanny grow and become more self-aware and complete people. Austen brings to life the day-to-day emotional hyper-emotional drama of a small, closed society of early 18C Britain. From a modern perspective, it's fascinating to bring the author's account of those times to the mind's eye and contemplate how people endured it without repeatedly slitting their throats.
    • 4/5
      Mansfield Park by Jane Austen was originally published in 1814 and tells the story of Fanny Price who is sent by her struggling family to reside with their rich relatives at Mansfield Park when she is ten years old. Fanny is the absolute picture of the poor relative, she is meek and mild and at first I found she lacked the spark of other Jane Austen heroines that I have come to love. However, over the course of the book, Fanny proved to be kind, patient and thoughtful. She had a strong sense of justice and morality and this, along with her backbone of steel eventually endeared her to me. I admit that I struggled with the first third of the book as it seemed to be moving very slowly. I disliked the romantic lead of Edmund, finding him both stiff and priggish. I spent some time rooting for Fanny’s love to be bestowed on Charles, but he eventually showed his true colors and I was glad that Fanny had resisted him. As the story intensified, Mansfield Park grew on me and by the end of the book, I was sorry to have to leave these characters behind. As in most of Jane Austen’s books, this is an excellent social commentary as she examines, in particular, the social influences and the traditions and rules of courting and marriage.While Fanny grew in her ambiguous role of lowly member of the household to become the most esteemed member of the family, so too did Mansfield Park grow in my opinion. Although the romance of these two cousins is difficult to accept in today’s world, there is still much to admire with the author’s exquisite prose and close observations of upper English society in the 1800’s.
    • 3/5
      I almost didn't finish. Volumes 2 and 3 got more interesting. The narrative has a very slow build, lots of exposition about being a clergyman and landscaping and Fanny and Edmund having long talks about whatever. Lots of unneeded description about how Fanny is thinking or feeling or entire paragraphs basically telling the reader that Lady Bertram does nothing all day but sit on a sofa with her dog. And the play! Going on and on about wheter to do a play and which play and who was to do what parts and Fanny not wanting to participate in the fun. Not much action. I think the subtly of Fanny and the characterization is difficult for modern readers. We can't imagine a time where the residents of Mansfield Park have servants to do menial tasks yet manage to do nothing all day long while dressed up in fancy clothes! Boring. Fanny is quiet and passive. The dramatic tension at the end where you come down to who will marry who is more interesting. Austen writes with too much understatement and if you are not trained you miss it. For instance, I almost missed how awful Mrs Norris is and how lazy and indifferent Lady Bertram is. Fanny herself will certainly not point out any faults in her "dear" aunts. Yes, the reader admires Fanny for her virtue and the fact that she saw that Henry Crawford was a fake before everyone else and that she grows to love Mansfield and she would not marry for simply marrying or for money, and you are happy that she is patient and kind and Edmund realizes how she is perfect for him and they live happily ever after at Mansfield Park. But that does not redeem the novel, it should of been 200 pages. I would not recommend this book unless you are an Austen fan already, stick with pride and prejudice or sense and sensibility which have faster narratives, less pages and more interesting heroines
    • 2/5
      Another Austen romance.Fanny Price, about age 9, is "invited" to live with her Bertram cousins--her parents have too many kids in too small a space in the city of Portsmouth. Her mother married down. Her oldest sister married up, to a Bertram, and lives at Mansfield Park. Her other sister, Mrs Norris, now widowed, married laterally to a minister, and now lives within walking distance of the Bertrams. It is Mrs Norris' idea that the Bertram's should offer to house one of the sister's daughters.Mrs Norris makes sure Fanny knows her place. She is expected to stay home and help Aunt Bertram, who is the most mild and boring woman ever. Mrs Norris is the cruel aunt, and constantly reminds Fanny of her position. She is more helper than cousin.And this goes on for years. As they age, their relationships shift, though Mrs Norris always blames Fanny and thinks she doesn't deserve anything. The Bertram family has a bit of an implosion, with illness, elopement, running off, and unrequited love. Because of course, this is a romance.And in the end, exactly what I expected to happen happened. Because it's a romance!
    • 4/5
      Die Übersetzung von Angelika Beck ist nicht die beste, noch dazu wurde schlampig lektoriert.Ansonsten nette Geschichte mit vorhersehbarem Ende.
    • 4/5
      This Jane Austen novel tends to be talked of rather less than some of the others. I enjoyed it though it took me nine days to get through, as it's a slow burn novel, lacking a strong narrative drive. The heroine, Fanny Price, is the eldest daughter of one of three sisters (the poor one, who was deemed to have married beneath her, and who isn't given the dignity of having a first name here) At the age of ten Fanny is sent to live with her aunt, another sister Maria who married an MP, Sir Thomas Bertram, and who live on the eponymous estate in Northamptonshire. The Bertrams have two sons, Tom and Edmund, and two daughters, Maria and Julia; and the third sister, Frances Norris, is also around, especially after the death of her clergyman husband. The novel is essentially about the relationships between these people, and a brother and sister who arrive on the scene, Henry and Mary Crawford. There are the usual sharp Austen observations about social situations and class pretentiousness, and some passages of great humour, especially over their private theatricals, putting on a performance for their own amusement of a real life bawdy play, Lovers' Vows (which sounds great fun and which I've downloaded). Fanny rejects a marriage proposal from Henry Crawford, which seems to echo Austen's rejection of the only such proposal she received, when she initially accepted the offer and then changed her mind after sleeping on it. Fanny is unhappy at Mansfield Park, but then when she returns to the family home in Portsmouth, she rejects the chaos there and starts to long to return to the estate. The last part of the novel contains two elopements and a resetting of a number of the relationships between the characters, plus a happy ending for Fanny. Fanny is a less interesting character than other heroines of Austen's novels, and comes across sometimes as a bit annoyingly priggish, but the reader basically sympathises with her predicament living with the eclectic bunch of self-centred characters that largely comprise the Mansfield Park household.

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