Mansfield Park
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Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
Literature
James Mustich
Aug 12, 2018
From a large and not too wealthy family, bashful Fanny Price is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle at the house that gives this book its name. She finds herself intimidated by everyone there, except her kind cousin Edmund; constantly bursting into tears, she won’t even take part in her coevals’ racy amateur theatricals. Despite the fact that Fanny can be priggish, by following her convictions she ultimately finds true love. Mansfield Park stands at a distance from Austen’s other novels: Although less lustrous than Emma or Sense and Sensibility, and less vibrant than Pride and Prejudice, it’s probably her most substantial book. While some of her fans find it hard to love, it was actually the author’s favorite.
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DeAnn Rossetti
Oct 28, 2018
I love Jane Austen, if for nothing else than for her ferocious wit and her female protagonists who are always stronger than they know.
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Windy Cutler
Nov 25, 2018
Sometimes Fanny is just a little too goody, goody, but Austen, as usual, can treat with compassion as well as caustic wit protagonists of varying character.
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Leonor Barrio de la Vega
Jan 16, 2019
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Megan Butland
Jan 29, 2019
Read and own
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Leslie Jensen Williams
Jan 29, 2019
Not one of my favorite Austin’s but still a great read.
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Matthew
Mar 29, 2019
Not her best but worth reading
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Olivia Holmes
May 25, 2019
Jane Austen never disappoints.
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Blueberry
Aug 9, 2019
Not my favorite Austen, but there's still a lot there
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Nicole Hardy
Dec 15, 2019
I enjoy all Austen and, although this is not my favourite, this is just as good a read as her other volumes. (Sense and Sensibility is my favourite!)
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Jane Harris
Jul 5, 2020
Although not usually a favorite for Austin fans, I loved this book. Maybe because I “read it“ via audio book and it’s narrator really brought the book to life for me. I just fell in love with the Fannie’s character.
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Kimberly Hickey
Apr 9, 2021
a bit different from the others
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Fran
Apr 15, 2021
When I fist read this I was not ready to appreciate it, as I was not the first time I read Pride and Prejudice, which is a much more accessible Austen novel- it is one of those books that when you return to it sometime later you see its virtues (as well as those of Fanny Price), you admire the sly wit and are satisfied by the fates of the characters (just desserts comes to mind, especially in the lives of Maria and Mrs Norris).
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Helen
Jan 27
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Stefanie Mclellan
Jan 27
Entertaining
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Kati
Apr 8
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Kim L.
Aug 2
Jane Austen is always worth reading
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