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Mansfield Park (Unabridged) Kindle Edition

by Jane Austen (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park" is a classic novel that delves into the complexities of the early 19th-century English society, specifically focusing on the themes of social class, morality, and the role of women. Austen's unique writing style, characterized by wit, satire, and keen observation of human behavior, brings the characters and their interactions to life. The novel is set in a country estate, Mansfield Park, where the protagonist, Fanny Price, must navigate the expectations and judgments of her wealthy relatives. Through Fanny's journey, Austen explores the inner workings of society and challenges the conventional norms of the time. The unabridged edition allows readers to fully immerse themselves in Austen's richly detailed world and appreciate the depth of her social commentary. Jane Austen, a prolific writer of the Regency era, drew inspiration from her personal experiences and observations of society to craft her novels. Her keen insight into human nature and social dynamics shines through in each of her works, making her a timeless literary figure. With "Mansfield Park," Austen continues to captivate readers with her astute observations and engaging storytelling. I highly recommend "Mansfield Park" to readers who enjoy classic literature, social commentary, and character-driven narratives. Austen's exploration of societal values and individual morality will resonate with readers seeking a thought-provoking and memorable reading experience.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07BMVR6WH
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Musaicum Books
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Publication date ‏ : ‎ 21 Mar. 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1.6 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 69 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8027240807
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 10 years and up

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Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775 at Steventon near Basingstoke, the seventh child of the rector of the parish. She lived with her family at Steventon until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. After his death in 1805, she moved around with her mother; in 1809, they settled in Chawton, near Alton, Hampshire. Here she remained, except for a few visits to London, until in May 1817 she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. There she died on July 18, 1817. As a girl Jane Austen wrote stories, including burlesques of popular romances. Her works were only published after much revision, four novels being published in her lifetime. These are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma(1816). Two other novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were published posthumously in 1818 with a biographical notice by her brother, Henry Austen, the first formal announcement of her authorship. Persuasion was written in a race against failing health in 1815-16. She also left two earlier compositions, a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan, and an unfinished novel, The Watsons. At the time of her death, she was working on a new novel, Sanditon, a fragmentary draft of which survives.
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Customers find this Jane Austen novel an easy enjoyable read with a timeless classic story and perfect picture of Regency times. They appreciate its value, with one noting it repays multiple readings, and consider it one of the best editions of Austen's works. The character development receives mixed reactions, with some praising the wonderful characters while others find the narrator's voice disappointing. The book has a slow pace that takes time to get into.

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212 customers mention ‘Readability’176 positive36 negative

Customers find the book an easy and enjoyable read with delightful prose.

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"...Mansfield Park is a masterpiece of English manners, of Englishness and of empire. It is also a pleasure to read from beginning to end...." Read more

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Customers love the story of this novel, describing it as a timeless classic that becomes even more interesting, with one customer noting how the plot develops throughout the book.

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"...this meat beneath the surface, there is still a gentle and touching domestic love story, which evolves over the course of the novel as the more..." Read more

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Customers find the book worth the money, with one mentioning that it repays multiple readings.

"...Can't recommend it enough. This kindle edition is FREE and it has page numbers so it's easy to reference in essays - this is a..." Read more

"...(without trying to be 'clever'), demure, empathic, shy, understanding, patient, soft-spoken (if and when she speaks at all), caring, and so on ad..." Read more

"...What she is, is resolute, determined and above all, willing to be the subservient companion to Lady Bertram and her pampered offspring...." Read more

"Half a book of details and laying character groundwork, read slowly, followed by a swift advance of a satisfactory ending...." Read more

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Customers find the book beautiful, describing it as a lovely edition that captures the perfect picture of Regency times, with one customer noting its old-world charm.

"...In short, Fanny Price is a very nice, kind lady who thoroughly deserves the happiness which eventually comes to her...." Read more

"...Henry's sister Miss Mary Crawford, is attractive and charming, but neither of them necessarily have good principles either...." Read more

"...Jane's writing does not date. I am stunned yet again by her brilliance and subtlety." Read more

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"...A strong theme in this book, and one which gave me a lot of food for thought, is nature v nurture...." Read more

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Customers love Jane Austen's romance in this book, with one customer noting the vivid characters and another describing it as the best edition of Austen's works.

"...She is (at times annoyingly so) the very embodiment of perfection in womanhood, or at least according to the standards of the early 19th century...." Read more

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"...The characterisation in the book is fantastic - Mary Crawford for instance - yes, we know she's flawed and that some of the things she does are very..." Read more

"...academic style, so heavily theoretical, that many sentences are very hard to parse, even for someone who is familiar with literary criticism and..." Read more

"...a lot of conversations which, although interesting and useful for character exploration, could probably be removed. Is that sacrilege?..." Read more

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"...we followed Fanny through her daily life at a rather sedate, disinteresting pace which allowed me to place Mansfield Park down far too easily than..." Read more

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V. G. Harwood
... of Austen's novels and you can say what you like about Fanny Price
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 September 2014
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I know that Mansfield Park is generally seen as one of the less popular of Austen's novels and you can say what you like about Fanny Price, with her quietness, her delicacy and poor health - in my view, she is a lesson to us all. The wonderful thing about her is that she holds it all inside - we know she's in love with Edmund, but she hides it away even from herself; she finds herself disapproving of her family in Portsmouth, but then is mortified that she might have let it show. In short, Fanny Price is a very nice, kind lady who thoroughly deserves the happiness which eventually comes to her.

There's loads going on in the book - obviously, it's set on a grand country estate and it is really a romance of an English Country House. I've read critics who argue that the house is as much a character in the book as the Crawfords, Julia and Maria, Mrs. Norris and Sir Thomas. I can't disagree - note how the pastoral idyll fails when trouble comes to the Hall - suddenly the very atmosphere has been infected by Maria Bertram's loose morals. Similarly, when Sir Thomas is away in Antigua - the house begins to fall apart as the custodian of the home is not there to keep it all in order.

The characterisation in the book is fantastic - Mary Crawford for instance - yes, we know she's flawed and that some of the things she does are very suspect, but she's kind of likeable too. Indeed, no one in the book is all bad or all good - in fact, they're just human and very realistic. There aren't many early 19th century romances which can claim the same.

In short, this is a wonderful, wonderful book which provides a fantastic life lesson to us all in patience, the art of courtship and romance and measuring the true worth of a person. Can't recommend it enough.

This kindle edition is FREE and it has page numbers so it's easy to reference in essays - this is a reasonable edition, I feel

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The most disturbing of Austen's novels but still a pleasure from beginning to end
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 November 2006
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Mansfield Park, although certainly regarded as a part of the canon of English literature, is often considered to be the weakest, least dazzling of Austen's novels. Without the witty sparkle of Pride and Prejudice or the gothic indulgence of Northanger Abbey, it has struggled at time to match the popularity of her other titles. But oh, what a treat those who pass over Mansfield Park are missing. Certainly, it is the most disturbing and perhaps the least superficially pleasing of Austen's output but it has rewards aplenty for the careful reader.

Mansfield Park, home of the affluent Bertram family, takes in a young poor relation with the overt intention of giving her the advantages of a good education and good connections while preserving her sense of gratitude and subservience. Fanny, the haplessly lucky chosen beneficiary of such benevolence is uprooted from friends, home, family and all that it familiar to take up residence in the grand house with her grand relations. Austen sets Fanny up as the heroine, designed to evoke the sympathy of the reader: this is a challenge for a modern audience, many of whom will find her weak and too self-deprecating to be genuinely engaging. And similarly, the sins and deficiencies in disposition and feeling with which Austen gifts brother and sister, Mary and Henry Crawford, may seem not so damning today as Austen intended. This however, does little to detract from the overall value of the novel itself. The relationship between the Bertram family and its colonial role (their wealth derives from sugar plantations in Antigua) is only hinted at overtly, but beautifully explored through the metaphorical position of Mansfield as the centre of all that is English. Similarly, contemporary values regarding manners, position, influence and identity are gently rolled out for the reader through the evolving relationship between the Bertrams and their acquaintances and within the family itself. And yet, with all this meat beneath the surface, there is still a gentle and touching domestic love story, which evolves over the course of the novel as the more passionate, less fatalistic engagements and attachments of side characters wax and wane.

Mansfield Park is a masterpiece of English manners, of Englishness and of empire. It is also a pleasure to read from beginning to end. Now, I'm off to start at the beginning again!

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 March 2025
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Good book

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Loved the story, hated Fanny Price
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 March 2015
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Fanny Price is adopted by her rich Aunt and brought up with her cousins as the poor relation. Obviously Fanny falls madly in love with her cousin Edmund after living with the family for 9 years (she's now 17 ish?). Enter local vicar's sister and brother in-law, sister falls for Edmund and brother falls for Fanny. There's the usual love triangles, will they won't they, misunderstandings, a big scandal and they all live happily ever after.

This is a long book, there are a lot of conversations which, although interesting and useful for character exploration, could probably be removed. Is that sacrilege? I also didn't like Fanny and Edmund, and most of the other characters (apart from Aunt Bertram, I found her quite amusing in that she couldn't do anything). The only thing Fanny stuck to throughout the entire novel was her dislike of Henry and Mary Crawford.

I think you have to like the lead characters in a novel, otherwise you don't care enough to read 560 pages (even though I did read them all). Jane Austen's prose is still delightful, her characters are amusing even if they are a bit weak-willed and rubbish humans. I still love her ability to write conversations in such a way that you can see the thought processes of the character, see them being manipulated (it seems everyone in 19th century England were master manipulators) until they eventually decide the exact opposite of what they just thought.

This is my least favourite Austen novels so far (it doesn't compare to S&S and P&P) but I can see her characterisation becoming even more skilled and diverse.

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Deep and dark
Reviewed in Mexico on 12 April 2018
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Reviews call this the darkest of Austen's novels. It has a psychological dept that her other books, lighter and more satyrical, lack. A good insight on trauma, love and honor.

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Reviewed in the United States on 18 November 2024
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Edition Review: The Chiltern classics are classy, collectible, and most definitely giftable. Each copy is a work of art in the gorgeous raised cover art, gilt-edged pages, thick paper stock, ribbon bookmark, and well formatted pages and font. Just above the size of a paperback and comfort-cushioned hardbound feel in hand. Readers will love this edition.

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Most people would turn their heads and stare to know that I love this second when I rank the six Jane Austen novels. I felt an urge to pick up this well-narrated audio version and listen in once again. I will share a ramble of thoughts on what jumped out at me this go around rather than a well-constructed review.

As a teen, I think I related to Fanny's shyness, awkwardness, and I knew an underdog when I saw one. None of those early reactions of changed. Oh, granted, I've noticed her youthful immaturity come into play with her jealous condemnation or quick repudiation of some of those around her without the softer way an adult can hold to conviction with compassion and understanding (note I say 'can' because even as adults, we are quick to pounce on other people's mistakes or missteps at times).

It's easy to forget Fanny is but eighteen here and she is the youngest of all the principal characters. She possesses a poise and gravity that her fickle, vain female cousins and even her aunts do not. Mary Crawford is the only of the female characters who can come close to rivaling her in intellect when she makes an effort while at Mansfield, but once back in the bosom of her shallow London friends, she shelves her brains to conform (and no, I'm not grudging people some frivolity and entertainment now and then) that it's okay to detest one's spouse and the only serious consideration when choosing said spouse is advancement or money. One can gripe to their friends about their misery and have their fun afterward even if it means sporting with or shattering another marriage.

And, that sporting with other people's affections and lives is what struck me so hard this time about Henry Crawford and Mrs. Norris. Gasp, I know. I put two such people in the same sentence. He's rakish and she's parsimonious so they don't appear to have a lot in common. But, in their own ways, they share a liking for twisting people to do their will and take pleasure in it.

And, that segues me nicely into why I appreciate this one. Austen is both poking fun at the all too serious folks with conviction while also giving them the grave nod that one should have discernment. The movie adaptions make most of the characters shine so they appeal while the book paints them all with a darker shade so their unappealing sides are more visible. Mary Crawford's character is where I see that most and, I do not blame the filmmakers for this choice. Someone has to be likeable, right? We wink with her over her flaws, but the book presents her with more mercenary designs that Fanny sees because her partiality shields her from the dazzle and attraction of the Crawfords. And, to give due credit, Fanny's educated and thought-filled mind help her parse out what her Bertram cousins can't and won't see particularly in Henry Crawford.

Wanda McCaddon did well with the range of voices from old to young, gender, class, and personality so that I had no trouble delving into the story each time I clicked it on.

The fact is I enjoy this book because I see it as part cautionary tale, part entertainment as Austen rolls out so many disparaging characters and brings them together at MP, but also part subtle complexity in that things are not only one faceted from the characters to the plot. Timid Fanny doesn't sparkle or have great appeal, but she has an inner strength that stands pat when she hits a pivotal moment of decision with everything and everyone ranged against her.

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ジュリエット・スティーブンソンによる朗読ＣＤ（完全版）
Reviewed in Japan on 13 November 2011
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ジュリエット・スティーブンソンによる『マンスフィールド・パーク』の
朗読ＣＤ（完全版：Unabridged）について。

ＣＤ14枚で約16時間50分。
ジュリエット・スティーブンソンの声はクリアでとても聞きやすいです。
また皮肉っているところなどは、くすっと笑わずにはいられないほど、です。

登場人物毎に声や話し方を変えるので、聞いているうちに情景が目に浮かぶようです。
さらにそれぞれの人のやさしさやずるさなど、色々なものが聞いているうちに、
すっと心に入ってきます。

声の強弱や力の入れ方などが巧みで、はらはらどきどきしながら
「この先、どうなるのだろう？」と聞いています。

朗読者の声や話し方、スピードなどが不安であれば、版元のNaxos AudioBooksで
試聴できるので、そちらでまずはお試し下さい。
なお、硬い紙箱の中に、厚紙で１枚ずつ包装されています。

ジュリエット・スティーブンソンの朗読はとても聞きやすいので、オススメします。

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Harshita
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Reviewed in India on 2 October 2017
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Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's third novel, regarded by most critics as her most mature and complex work. However, given the unpopularity surrounding the novel, it is easy to relegate this work to the margins in favour of her other, more celebrated works. The one puzzling aspect of this is what exactly contributes to the widespread apathy towards this work. Lionel Trilling, the celebrated Austen critic and scholar, once famously wrote of Mansfield: "For those who admire her it is likely to make an occasion of embarrassment. By the same token it is the novel which the depreciators of Jane Austen may cite most tellingly in justification of their antagonism."

In popular discourse, Austen figures as the creator of fiery, intelligent women who deliver scathingly witty repartees and refuse to bow down to societal norms and pressures of what a 'good girl' is supposed to do. Austen is seen, and not incorrectly, as the subverter and critique of the stifling expectations laid down on Victorian women, as exemplified through women like Lizzie Bennet, Emma Woodhouse and Elinor Dashwood. When you keep that in mind while reading Mansfield Park, the character of Fanny Price feels almost like a betrayal: here is a girl who is poor, lacking in health, vitality and beauty, and apparently seems to have none of that feistiness or pizzazz that her literary predecessors had. Rightly so. Fanny Price comes across meek, timid, submissive, and seems to uphold rigid ideas of feminine virtues (recall especially the episode of the private theatricals, where she is shocked by the fact that her cousins are enacting women blatantly lacking in modesty).

However, as a literature student, it falls to my happy lot to scratch below the surface. Fanny, by virtue of her modesty and meekness, becomes the moral compass of the novel, quietly but insistently guiding the characters at Mansfield. She is also the perfect embodiment of what Locke calls the 'modern self', able to choose wisely for herself and possessing the discerning ability to pick long-term happiness over short-term gratification, unlike her Bertram cousins.

Mansfield Park is a complex, multilayered work which, initially can come across as boring and tedious. However, it is in this novel that Austen's true literary genius shines.

The Penguin Edition, annotated with an introduction by Kathryn Sutherland, is as wonderful as one could expect Penguin to be. The book was delivered promptly in one day.

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Mansfield Park.
Reviewed in Australia on 19 March 2018
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wonderful read. I love the characters. Jane has turned ordinary people into snarks, louts, borderlines, and a few quite lovely people.

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