Mansfield Park (Vintage Classics) Book

Mansfield Park encompasses not only Jane Austenâ??s great comedic gifts and her genius as a historian of the human animal, but her personal credo as wellâ??her faith in a social order that combats chaos through civil grace, decency, and wit.At the novelâ??s center is Fanny Price, the classic â??poor cousin,â? brought as a child to Mansfield Park by the rich Sir Thomas Bertram and his wife as an act of charity. Over time, Fanny comes to demonstrate forcibly those virtues Austen most admired: modesty, firm principles, and a loving heart. As Fanny watches her cousins Maria and Julia cast aside their scruples in dangerous flirtations (and worse), and as she herself resolutely resists the advantages of marriage to the fascinating but morally unsteady Henry Crawford, her seeming austerity grows in appeal and makes clear to us why she was Austenâ??s own favorite among her heroines.Read More