Mansfield Park

Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighborhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste for flirtation. Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austen's first mature work and, with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, one of her most profound.

Written by Jane Austen, edited by Kathryn Sutherland; illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith, introduction by Tony Tanner
560 pages
Published by Penguin Classics, 2012
Hardcover
5.3 x 1.4 x 8 inches