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Genre/Form: | Domestic fiction Love stories Romance fiction Fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
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Jane Austen |
ISBN: | 0679412697 9780679412694 1853260320 9781853260322 0679601945 9780679601944 185715052X 9781857150520 |
OCLC Number: | 25315838 |
Notes: | Originally published: London, 1914. |
Description: | xxxvii, 488 pages ; 21 cm. |
Series Title: | Everyman's library, no. 52. |
Responsibility: | Jane Austen ; with an introduction by Peter Conrad. |
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Abstract:
Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The heroine, Fanny Price, has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her feelings while enduring the amorality, old-fashioned indifference and priggish disapproval of those around her.
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The best of Austen
Known as one of the more 'difficult" of Austen's works (due to what some find to be unsympathetic, overly moralistic characters), I think this novel is her best. Enjoyment hinges on what one thinks of Fanny--but no matter, the writing has wit, ease but also complexity. Highly recommended, as is the...
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Known as one of the more 'difficult" of Austen's works (due to what some find to be unsympathetic, overly moralistic characters), I think this novel is her best. Enjoyment hinges on what one thinks of Fanny--but no matter, the writing has wit, ease but also complexity. Highly recommended, as is the film.
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