num_pages: 488
description: Mansfield Park encompasses not only Jane Austen’s great comedic gifts and her genius as a historian of the human animal, but her personal credo as well—her faith in a social order that combats chaos through civil grace, decency, and wit.At the novel’s center is Fanny Price, the classic “poor cousin,” brought as a child to Mansfield Park by the rich Sir Thomas Bertram and his wife as an act of charity. Over time, Fanny comes to demonstrate forcibly those virtues Austen most admired: modesty, firm principles, and a loving heart. As Fanny watches her cousins Maria and Julia cast aside their scruples in dangerous flirtations (and worse), and as she herself resolutely resists the advantages of marriage to the fascinating but morally unsteady Henry Crawford, her seeming austerity grows in appeal and makes clear to us why she was Austen’s own favorite among her heroines.
language: English
title: Mansfield Park
titlecomplete: Mansfield Park
characters: Sir Thomas Bertram, Mary Crawford, Edmund Bertram, Mr. Rushworth, Mr. Yates, Julia Bertram, Fanny Price (Mansfield Park), Mrs. Norris, Lady Bertram, Tom Bertram, Henry Crawford, Maria Bertram, William Price
genres: Historical, Literature, Audiobook, British Literature, Classics, Classic Literature, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 338789
places: United Kingdom, Northamptonshire, England, England, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
publisher: Everyman's Library