Harper Collins is proud to present its range of best-loved essential classics I pay very little regardto what any young person says on the subject of marriage If they profess a disinclination for it I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person' Humble & lowly a young Fanny Price goes to live with her wealthy Aunt & Uncle at their grand house Mansfield Park Growing up with her privileged & spoilt cousins the Bertrams she lives in the shadows of their glamorous lives but manages to find an ally in her cousin Edmund When Henry & Mary Crawford come to visit the house is thrown into disarray as romance flourishes between the young people leading Fanny to finally confront the extent of her true feelings for Edmund ...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AMANDA VICKERYThe Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer & illustrator Leanne Shapton & introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers & Austen fans Alexander Mc Call Smith Lynne Truss Amanda Vickery Francesca Segal PD James & Andrew Motion ' The most perfect artist among women the writer whose books are immortal' Virginia Woolf Fanny Price's rich relatives offer her a place in their home so that she can be properly brought up However Fanny's childhood is a lonely one as she is never allowed to forget her position Her only ally is her cousin Edmund When her cousins befriend two glamorous new young people who have arrived in the area Henry & Mary Crawford Edmund starts to grow close to Mary & Fanny finds herself dealing with feelings she has never experienced before ...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park acutely aware of her humble rank & with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally During her uncle's absence in Antigua the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life & a reckless taste for flirtation Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austen's first mature work & with its quiet heroine & subtle examination of social position & moral integrity one of her most profound ...

Introduction & Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood University of Sussex Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park it has quite unexpected results The diffident & much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality old-fashioned indifference & priggish disapproval of those around her ...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Mansfield Park by Jane Austen' We have all been more or less to blame every one of us excepting Fanny' Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park acutely aware of her humble rank & with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally During her uncle's absence in Antigua the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life & a reckless taste for flirtation Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austen's first mature work & with its quiet heroine & subtle examination of social position & moral integrity one of her most profound The Penguin English Library
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play “ There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them” Mansfield Park is the magnificent country residence of Sir Thomas Bertram & his family It is here that their poor relation Fanny Price is brought up Never allowed to forget her good fortune Fanny is ignored by her cousins with the exception of Edmund who alone treats her with care & affection But will she ever be able to win a valued place in the household & the heart of the man of her dreams? True virtue trumphs over superficiality in the most faithful adaptation of Austen’s most profound novel ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Mansfield Park is the magnificent country residence of Sir Thomas Bertram & his family It is here that their poor relation Fanny Price is brought up Never allowed to forget her good fortune Fanny is ignored by her cousins with the exception of Edmund who alone treats her with care & affection But will she ever be able to win a valued place in the household & the heart of the man of her dreams? ...

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