Mansfield Park

By (author) Brontë, Charlotte; By (author) Wilde, Oscar; Introduction by Welsh Irvine; By (author) Austen, Jane; By (author) Alcott, Louisa May; By (author) Stevenson, Robert Louis; By (author) Poe, Edgar Allan; By (author) Shelley Mary; By (author)
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Celebrate Jane Austen''s 250th birthday with this beautiful gift edition of her bold and brilliant novel about privilege, class, love and growing up. It comes with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and is finished with a silk ribbon.

Fanny Price''s rich relatives offer her a place in their home so that she can be properly brought up. However, Fanny''s childhood is a lonely one as she is never allowed to forget her position. Her only ally is her cousin Edmund. When her cousins befriend two glamorous new young people who have arrived in the area, Henry and Mary Crawford, Edmund starts to grow close to Mary and Fanny finds herself dealing with feelings she has never experienced before.

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Full of the energies of discord - sibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion, and vanity
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Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire
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Jane Austen at her most genteelly acerbic
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Austen looks at her world with a cool, undressing gaze...she is a formidable opponent of hypocrisy and sentimentality
Biographical note:
Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath, then to Southampton and finally to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressions and was initially rejected by the publishers and only published in 1813 after much revision. She published four of her novels in her lifetime, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were both published posthumously in 1818.