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Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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Mansfield Park

by Jane Austen

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In Mansfield Park, first published in 1814, when the author had reached her full maturity as a novelist, Jane Austen paints some of her most witty and perceptive studies of character. Against a genteel country landscape of formal parks and stately homes, the gossipy Mrs. Norris becomes a masterful comic creation; the fickle young suitor Henry Crawford provides an unequaled portrait of an unscrupulous young man; and the complexly drawn Fanny Price emerges as one of Jane Austen’s finest achievements—the poor cousin who comes to stay with her wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park and learns how the game of love can too easily turn to folly. More intricately plotted and wider in scope than Austen’s earlier works, Mansfield Park continues to enchant and delight us as a superb example of a great author’s craft.

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"Never did any novelist make more use of an impeccable sense of human values."—Virginia Woolf

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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Introduction by Peter Conrad

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In Mansfield Park,"" first published in 1814, when the author had reached her full maturity as a novelist, Jane Austen paints some of her most witty and perceptive studies of character. Against a genteel country landscape of formal parks and stately homes, the gossipy Mrs. Norris becomes a masterful comic creation; the fickle young suitor Henry Crawford provides an unequaled portrait of an unscrupulous young man; and the complexly drawn Fanny Price emerges as one of Jane Austen's finest achievements--the poor cousin who comes to stay with her wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park and learns how the game of love can too easily turn to folly. More intricately plotted and wider in scope than Austen's earlier works, Mansfield Park continues to enchant and delight us as a superb example of a great author's craft.

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Introduction by Peter Conrad

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Introduction by Peter Conrad

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About the Author

Carol Shields is the author of Jane Austen (Penguin Lives), The Stone Diaries, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize, Larry's Party, Happenstance, and Dressing Up for the Carnival, among other novels. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780553212761
Author:
Austen, Jane
Publisher:
Bantam Classics
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
British and irish fiction (fictional works by
Edition Description:
Bibliography: p. 387-389.
Series Volume:
692
Publication Date:
June 1983
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
512
Dimensions:
692x417x84 54
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