Mansfield Park
Recommended by Mary Warnock, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #5 in Jane Austen, Ranked #32 in English Writer — see more rankings.
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... more
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Mary Warnock This is an oddity but it is a highly moralistic novel. Fanny Price, the heroine, whom many people find rather tiresome, is a highly moral and articulate character and one of the things that intrigues me so much is that Jane Austen at the beginning of the 19th century had the correct view that you can’t be morally involved unless you feel strongly that some things are good and some things are bad. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Mansfield Park is ranked in the following categories:
- #37 in Adultery
- #65 in Classic
- #52 in Jealousy
- #85 in Love Stories
- #34 in Penguin Classics
- #57 in Project Gutenberg
- #53 in Public Domain
- #71 in UK
- #84 in University
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