Mansfield Park (The Complete Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (989 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9626344679 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 14 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. 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 doll. BettyLou said Mansfield Park. 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 th
In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons. Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castl
Fanny Price moves from poverty to the opulence of Mansfield Park at the age of ten when she is adopted by rich relations. "Mansfield Park" is the longest of Jane Austen's six major novels. But as she grows up she finds she is constantly contending with the burden of her past as her relatives try to keep her in place.