Mansfield Park

It's One Heavy Book KJC So I just wanted to let others know that this collection is one giant book of all Austen novels combined. You can't tell from the picture, but I was actually expecting (and hoping for) individual books packed in one box like other book collections I have. So I was definitely a bit disappointed when I received this book. . Paul Bulger said Exceeded my Expectations Tremendously. I tend to buy cheaper books because I like to underline things and write in the margins, so it'd be a waste to buy nice clothbound editions or hardcovers, and usually such modestly priced collections are on the cheaply manufactured side, with thin paper and thin print, since you're getting so much to the dollar (seven GR. "Mansfield Park" according to BettyLou. This is a very moving story about a young girl's plight during the 18th century. Children were treated as non-entities, and very little care was given to their feelings. At that time in history, everything was about personal standing in society, and that was determined by a person's wealth. Fanny Price, at the age of 10,

But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. --Alix Wilber. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to t

A dashing couple from London, Mary Crawford and her brother Henry, enter this stable, rural world. Throughout the dramatic events that follow it is she who is able the bring back some stability to the ruptured lives of those around her.One of the great novels of the nineteenth century, Mansfield Park echoes Jane Austens fears and awareness of the dawn of a modern age, which was to bring about a complete break from the old country traditions and way of life.. They succeed in dazzling everyone ant Mansfield Park, except for Fanny, who sees throug