Mansfield Park (Vintage Classics Austen Series)

by Jane Austen, Amanda Vickery (Foreword by)

Overview

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

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780099589280
Publisher:	Random House UK
Publication date:	10/01/2014
Series:	Vintage Classics
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	576
Sales rank:	509,744
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 1.70(d)
Age Range:	7 - 9 Years

About the Author

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

Date of Birth:

December 16, 1775

Date of Death:

July 18, 1817

Place of Birth:

Village of Steventon in Hampshire, England

Place of Death:

Winchester, Hampshire, England

Education:

Taught at home by her father

Editorial Reviews

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

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

 • "Austen looks at her world with a cool, undressing gaze... she is a formidable opponent of hypocrisy and sentimentality." —Observer

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