Mansfield Park
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the heart of Jane Austen's most morally complex novel stands Fanny Price — a timid, impoverished girl taken in by her wealthy Bertram relatives at Mansfield Park — whose quiet virtue and steadfast integrity are tested at every turn by a world that prizes performance, charm, and social cunning above all else. Set against the glittering yet treacherous landscape of Regency England's gentry class, Mansfield Park chronicles Fanny's passage from overlooked dependent to the moral conscience of an entire household, as the arrival of the sophisticated Crawford siblings ignites a storm of romantic intrigue, theatrical ambition, and suppressed desire. Published in 1814, this is Austen at her most disciplined and penetrating — her trademark irony sharpened into something closer to moral philosophy, her social comedy shadowed by a genuine reckoning with questions of conscience, duty, and self-knowledge. Where her other heroines dazzle with wit, Fanny Price compels through endurance, making Mansfield Park the novel that most rewards patient, attentive reading. Austen's prose, as precise and unsparing as ever, illuminates the quiet violence of social exclusion and the radical power of remaining true to oneself — leaving the reader to wonder whether goodness, in a world so enamoured with brilliance, can ever truly prevail.
Author: Jane Austen
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the heart of Jane Austen's most morally complex novel stands Fanny Price — a timid, impoverished girl taken in by her wealthy Bertram relatives at Mansfield Park — whose quiet virtue and steadfast integrity are tested at every turn by a world that prizes performance, charm, and social cunning above all else. Set against the glittering yet treacherous landscape of Regency England's gentry class, Mansfield Park chronicles Fanny's passage from overlooked dependent to the moral conscience of an entire household, as the arrival of the sophisticated Crawford siblings ignites a storm of romantic intrigue, theatrical ambition, and suppressed desire. Published in 1814, this is Austen at her most disciplined and penetrating — her trademark irony sharpened into something closer to moral philosophy, her social comedy shadowed by a genuine reckoning with questions of conscience, duty, and self-knowledge. Where her other heroines dazzle with wit, Fanny Price compels through endurance, making Mansfield Park the novel that most rewards patient, attentive reading. Austen's prose, as precise and unsparing as ever, illuminates the quiet violence of social exclusion and the radical power of remaining true to oneself — leaving the reader to wonder whether goodness, in a world so enamoured with brilliance, can ever truly prevail.