AllFreeNovel Stories worth discovering
Cover of Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park

by Jane Austen

Genre: Romance Historical

48 pages

Adopted into the household of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, Fanny Price grows up a meek outsider among her cousins in the unaccustomed elegance of Mansfield Park. Soon after Sir Thomas absents himself on estate business in Antigua (the family's investment in slavery and sugar is considered in the Introduction in a new, post-colonial light), Mary Crawford and her brother Henry arrive at Mansfield, bringing with them London glamour, and the seductive taste for flirtation and theatre that precipitates a crisis. While Mansfield Park appears in some ways to continue where Pride and Prejudice left off, it is, as Kathryn Sutherland shows in her illuminating Introduction, a much darker work, which challenges 'the very values (of tradition, stability, retirement and faithfulness) it appears to endorse'. This new edition provides an accurate text based, for the first time since its original publication, on the first edition of 1814.

Start Reading Page List Review

Pages

  1. Page 1
  2. Page 2
  3. Page 3
  4. Page 4
  5. Page 5
  6. Page 6
  7. Page 7
  8. Page 8
  9. Page 9
  10. Page 10
  11. Page 11
  12. Page 12
  13. Page 13
  14. Page 14
  15. Page 15
  16. Page 16
  17. Page 17
  18. Page 18
  19. Page 19
  20. Page 20
  21. Page 21
  22. Page 22
  23. Page 23
  24. Page 24
  25. Page 25
  26. Page 26
  27. Page 27
  28. Page 28
  29. Page 29
  30. Page 30
  31. Page 31
  32. Page 32
  33. Page 33
  34. Page 34
  35. Page 35
  36. Page 36
  37. Page 37
  38. Page 38
  39. Page 39
  40. Page 40
  41. Page 41
  42. Page 42
  43. Page 43
  44. Page 44
  45. Page 45
  46. Page 46
  47. Page 47
  48. Page 48

More to read

More Books