First published in 1814, "Mansfield Park" is Jane Austen’s third published novel, the story of Fanny Price, an impoverished young girl who at the age of ten is sent away by her overburdened family to be raised by her wealthy aunt and uncle, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, at their estate, the titular Mansfield Park. This classic coming of age story follows the young lives of Fanny and her four cousins, Tom, Edmund, Maria, and Julia. When Sir Thomas incurs a large debt he is forced to rent out the Mansfield Park parsonage which has been recently freed up by the death of the family’s Uncle Norris. Clergyman Dr. Grant and his wife take up residence in the parsonage and the aristocratic Crawford family from London joins them soon after. The arrival of the wealthy and fashionable Crawford family enlivens life at Mansfield Park and begins to spark romantic entanglements amongst its residents. While largely ignored by critics during her lifetime, "Mansfield Park" has since been recognized as one of Austen’s most mature works. The greatest financial success of Austen’s literary career, "Mansfield Park" is a brilliant and satirical depiction of the lives of the upper class in England during the early 19th century. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and includes an introduction by Austin Dobson.
First published in 1814, "Mansfield Park" is Jane Austen’s third published novel, the story of Fanny Price, an impoverished young girl who at the age of ten is sent away by her overburdened family to be raised by her wealthy aunt and uncle, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, at their estate, the titular Mansfield Park. This classic coming of age story follows the young lives of Fanny and her four cousins, Tom, Edmund, Maria, and Julia. When Sir Thomas incurs a large debt he is forced to rent out the Mansfield Park parsonage which has been recently freed up by the death of the family’s Uncle Norris. Clergyman Dr. Grant and his wife take up residence in the parsonage and the aristocratic Crawford family from London joins them soon after. The arrival of the wealthy and fashionable Crawford family enlivens life at Mansfield Park and begins to spark romantic entanglements amongst its residents. While largely ignored by critics during her lifetime, "Mansfield Park" has since been recognized as one of Austen’s most mature works. The greatest financial success of Austen’s literary career, "Mansfield Park" is a brilliant and satirical depiction of the lives of the upper class in England during the early 19th century. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and includes an introduction by Austin Dobson.
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Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist whose work transformed the novel of manners into one of the most precise and enduring forms of literary art. Born in Steventon, Hampshire, Austen wrote with extraordinary command of irony, dialogue, social observation, and moral structure. Her major novels-Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion-examine courtship, family, property, class, women's education, inheritance, and the social pressures surrounding marriage in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England.Austen's reputation has grown steadily since her lifetime, and she is now regarded as one of the central figures in English literature. Her fiction combines romantic satisfaction with disciplined social intelligence, exposing vanity, self-deception, snobbery, and moral weakness without losing sympathy for human frailty. Pride and Prejudice, first published in 1813, remains her most widely recognised novel, celebrated for Elizabeth Bennet, Mr. Darcy, its brilliant comic scenes, and its lasting place in classic fiction, literary romance, Regency fiction, and the history of women writers.
