false 45032 242 Begun in 1811 at the height of Jane Austen's writing powers and published in 1814, Mansfield Park marks a conscious break from the tone of her first three novels, Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice, the last of which Austen came to see as "rather too light." Fanny Price is unlike any of Austen's previous heroines, a girl from a poor family brought up in a splendid country house and possessed of a vast reserve of moral fortitude and imperturbability. She is very different from Elizabeth Bennet, but is the product of the same inspired imagination. New chronology and further reading; Tony Tanner's original introduction reinstated <br><br> Edited with an introduction by Kathryn Sutherland. 2722329 book 1814 Mansfield Park total:22296|5:5205|4:8452|3:6599|2:1686|1:354| 22296 83356 30723 1673 5 16 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 19:49:17 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 12 10:14:06 -0700 2007 Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, whose smart, sensible heroines make the novels, but I actually enjoyed this bo...more...]]> 5 12 false false Tue Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Feb 10 12:52:14 -0800 2008 Fri Jul 25 18:15:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 8 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 11:55:59 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 17:08:06 -0800 2008 P & P and S & S, so I assumed I would enjoy Mansfield Park also. ...more...]]> 5 11 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 19 12:57:23 -0800 2007 Sun Apr 12 10:32:32 -0700 2009 Mansfield Park it gets better; the characters are more complex, the possibilities more delicious. I had to admit that I didn't fully appreciate the book when I first read it (albeit in high school) but every time I re-read it, I am more impressed by it.

I'm not sure how ...more...]]> 4 4 false true Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 00:37:11 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 01:25:23 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 5 false false Sat Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 04:01:29 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 01:11:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Wed Jun 18 08:25:12 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 18 08:36:29 -0700 2008 The heroine, Fanny Price, is unusual for Austen; unlike the confident, clever heroines like Elizabeth, Emma, and the Dashwood ...more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 21 18:10:24 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 15:54:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 5 false false Fri Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 15 19:49:06 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 22 10:38:47 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 6 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Mon Jun 04 10:30:30 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 04 10:35:47 -0700 2007
Please accept my profound apologies for what I am about to write. I would be most grateful if you would be inattentive to the following review. Please believe in my most profound respect and adoration for you.

Yours & etc,

Kelly

This book is god...more...]]> 3 2 false false Sat Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 12:41:24 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 12 22:42:46 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 3 false false Wed Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 13 13:49:49 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 13 13:30:53 -0800 2008
Fanny was too virtuous a character to be likable. She was dul...more...]]> 4 3 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 23 14:42:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 10 07:31:58 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 2 false false Tue Mar 18 13:20:48 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 18 13:25:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Feb 17 16:19:17 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 16:27:08 -0800 2009 One of the commentaries stated how many people didn't like this story because they felt the heroine, Fanny Price to be "too moral" and not as interesting...more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 16:16:37 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 00:49:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 18:10:01 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 18:13:52 -0700 2008 Mansfield Park fall into two camps: those who don't like Fanny and those that sort of, well, don't mind her so much. Hard to find someone who loves poor Fanny. I'm not saying I love her character, but I had read a little bit about the novel before I started reading and was p...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 05:03:28 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 05:04:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 13:47:20 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 09:07:35 -0700 2008
Ok, I'm almost finished with what feels like a marathon Jane Austen read. There are several things that drive ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Mar 24 15:06:48 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 15:06:48 -0700 2008
As Jane Austen’s third book, I had higher expectations for it. Written in 1814, I’m sure there are many aspects of English countryside lifestyles that I am unfamiliar wit...more...]]>