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Oct 07, 2012
Jenny (Reading Envy)
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(Somehow I never marked any Jane Austen novels as read, when I've read most of them multiple times. Trying to remedy this by summarizing my feelings on each one.)
I feel like I know what Jane was trying to do here - to show the disparity between serious and silly, the rich and poor, the entitled and the underprivileged. She manages it, but it is too heavy-handed for my tastes. ...more
I feel like I know what Jane was trying to do here - to show the disparity between serious and silly, the rich and poor, the entitled and the underprivileged. She manages it, but it is too heavy-handed for my tastes. ...more
I read this book in college and so this was only a re-read. It was pretty good but, as discussed in the introduction, I just can't compare Fanny to Austen's other heroines. She is so meek and mild and, dare I say it?, boring. Still a page-turner, though. And I didn't have the active almost dislike that I had with Emma upon a second reading, so that's saying something, right? I just think it's funny that this book is supposed to be her finest. Why? Because it deals with moral issues in a rather o
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Touted as the least of her novels with the least likable character in Fanny Price, I find Mansfield Park and Fanny as the understated gem in Austen's work. Perhaps I am peculiar but I find little relatable to Elizabeth Bennett and her confidence & wit and Emma is barely tolerable to me because of her blind beliefs & self absorption. Fanny while timid is an idealist. It has been said that this is not meant to be a romance novel which is probably why I like this over the others. A novel of ideals
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I liked the book for its own merits as well as its value and deserved place in the development of the English Novel. I think it really marks a transition from the earlier epistolary novels such as Samuel Richardson's "Pamela" to a fuller narrative and more developed character types. I think it also paints a relatively detailed portrait of the English class system of the time and shines a bit of a light into an area that was not as clearly depicted in prior literary works.
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The excessively preachy but equally perceptive Fanny Price is an odd sort of main character for Austen. She's balanced by the perfectly pleasant and perfectly venal Mary Crawford. The drippy Edmund has the evil...weakly evil, the worst sort...Harry Crawford as a foil. This isn't a bad book at all, but lacks a lot of the frothy fun of P. and P. and Emma.
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My second favorite Austen novel after P&P. Fanny Price is just too sweet! I was rooting for Edmund to notice her practically from the very first page. Aunt Norris is one of my favorite Austen characters too...because she is such a piece of work!
Sep 17, 2009
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it was amazing
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