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  • My least favorite Austen.

    

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• ― guaddess said on Mar 4, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Patricia Rozema's 1999 movie was much better than this book. I found Austen's Fanny to be too catoonish and easily forgettable at the same time. At times, it feels like Austen doesn't even like her that much. Poor Fanny, hasn't she suffered enough.

    

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This new edition places Mansfield Park in its Regency context and elucidates the theatrical background that pervades the novel. At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. She gradually falls in love with her cousin Edmund, but when the dazzling and sophisticated Crawfords arrive, and amateur theatricals unleash rivalry and sexual jealousy, Fanny has to fight to retain her independence. This new edition places Mansfield Park in its Regency context and elucidates the theatrical background that pervades the novel.

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