Mansfield Park

'Full of the energies of discord - sibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion and vanity' Margaret Drabble

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. 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. Mansfield Park is Austen's most complex work; a powerful portrayal of change and continuity, scandalous misdemeanours and true integrity.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Kathryn Sutherland

Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 04/29/2003
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 7.84h x 5.05w x 0.96d
ISBN: 9780141439808
Age: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 12
Point Value: 35
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 58702 / Mansfield Park

About the Author
Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most famous women writers. She is also the author of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey.

Kathryn Sutherland is a reader in English at St Anne's College, Oxford.

Tony Tanner was a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Cambridge.