Book description
'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 and 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 and a
reckless taste for flirtation. Mansfield Park is considered
Jane Austen's first mature work and, with its quiet heroine and subtle
examination of social position and moral integrity, one of her most profound.
The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in
English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the
beginning of the First World War.
Jane Austen (1775-1817) is one of English literature's greatest
and most widely-read writers - one of the four 'great English
novelists' according to F. R. Leavis (along with George Eliot, Henry
James and Joseph Conrad). Her novels, both romantic fiction and
acerbic social commentary, include Sense & Sensibility,
Pride & Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion and
Northanger Abbey. The third of Austen's novels to be published,
Mansfield Park is a subtle examination of social position and
moral integrity.
All six titles are published in the Penguin English Library.
