Mansfield Park (Vintage Classics Austen Series)
Jane Austen author Amanda Vickery editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:26th Jun '14
Should be back in stock very soon
Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series: all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by our finest contemporary writers
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.
Read Jane Austen's unsung masterpiece.
'The most perfect artist among women, the writer whose books are immortal' Virginia Woolf
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.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AMANDA VICKERY
VINTAGE CLASSICS AUSTEN SERIES - all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed and introduced by our finest contemporary writers.
Full of the energies of discord - sibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion, and vanity -- Margaret Drabble
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire -- J.K. Rowling
Jane Austen at her most genteelly ascerbic * The Times *
Austen looks at her world with a cool, undressing gaze...she is a formidable opponent of hypocrisy and sentimentality * Observer *
Who needs eReaders when book publishers are repackaging classic tales in beautiful covers like these? … Perfect for fans of the author * Bella *
Beautifully designed… Perfect collectable gift for Austen fans and design devotees * So Darling *
These might be the loveliest editions of Jane Austen’s novels we’ve seen in a long time * A Little Bird (blog) *
ISBN: 9780099589280
Dimensions: 178mm x 129mm x 36mm
Weight: 415g
576 pages