Mansfield Park

Overview

"Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire." —J. K. Rowling

Fanny Price’s rich relatives offer her a place in their home so that she can be properly brought up. However, Fanny’s childhood is a lonely one as she is never allowed to forget her place. Her only ally is her cousin Edmund. When her cousins befriend two glamorous new young people who have arrived in the area, Henry and Mary Crawford, Edmund starts to grow close to Mary and Fanny finds herself dealing with feelings she has never experienced before.

Reviews

"Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire." —J. K. Rowling

"The most perfect artist among women, the writer whose books are immortal." —Virginia Woolf

"Full of the energies of discord—sibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion, and vanity." —Margaret Drabble

"Jane Austen at her most genteelly acerbic." —The Times

Author Biography

Jane Austen (1775–1817) is also the author of Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, and Sense and Sensibility.