![]() Mansfield Park is Austen's most complex work a powerful portrayal of change and continuity, scandalous misdemeanours and true integrity. She finds comfort in her love for her cousin Edmund, until the arrival of charismatic outsiders from London throws life at the house into disarray and brings dangerous desires to the surface. ![]() The book was delivered promptly in one day. The Penguin Edition, annotated with an introduction by Kathryn Sutherland, is as wonderful as one could expect Penguin to be. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: 9780141197708 : Books Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible. : Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics) (9780141439808) by Austen, Jane and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. However, it is in this novel that Austen's true literary genius shines. Two other novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. ![]() ![]() Jane Austen's profound, ambiguous third novel is the story of Fanny Price, who is accustomed to being the poor relation at Mansfield Park, the home of her wealthy plantation-owning uncle. Mansfield Park is a complex, multilayered work which, initially can come across as boring and tedious. These are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815). 'Full of the energies of discord - sibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion and vanity' Margaret Drabble ![]()
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