Austen, Jane
Mansfield park - New York Oxford University Press 1998 - 438p. - Oxford World's Classics .
With an introduction by Marilyn Butler.
Notes by John Lucas
At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. There she accepts her lowly status, and gradually falls in love with her cousin Edmund. When the dazzling and sophisticated Henry and Mary Crawford arrive, Fanny watches as her cousins become embroiled in rivalry and sexual jealousy. As the company starts to rehearse a play by way of entertainment, Fanny struggles to retain her independence in the face of the Crawfords' dangerous attractions; and when Henry turns his attentions to her, the drama really begins...
0192833634
English Fiction
English Literature
England
Young women
Country homes
Children of the rich
Cousins
Adoptees
Uncles
Manners and customs
823.7 / AUS/M
Mansfield park - New York Oxford University Press 1998 - 438p. - Oxford World's Classics .
With an introduction by Marilyn Butler.
Notes by John Lucas
At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. There she accepts her lowly status, and gradually falls in love with her cousin Edmund. When the dazzling and sophisticated Henry and Mary Crawford arrive, Fanny watches as her cousins become embroiled in rivalry and sexual jealousy. As the company starts to rehearse a play by way of entertainment, Fanny struggles to retain her independence in the face of the Crawfords' dangerous attractions; and when Henry turns his attentions to her, the drama really begins...
0192833634
English Fiction
English Literature
England
Young women
Country homes
Children of the rich
Cousins
Adoptees
Uncles
Manners and customs
823.7 / AUS/M