(Summary by Elizabeth Klett)Ĭoachman/Baddeley/Mr. Mansfield Park By Jane Austen tells the story of Fanny Price, a frail, quiet young woman who has none of the high spirits or wit of Elizabeth Bennet or Marianne Dashwood. In this recording, LibriVox volunteers lend their voices to the colorful cast of characters in Austen's classic novel.

Fanny's gratitude and friendship for Edmund gradually grow into love, but the introduction of Mary and Henry Crawford, a captivating sister and brother, into the neighborhood of Mansfield Park, confuses and complicates the affections of the Bertram household. Mansfield Park A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation By: Jane Austen Narrated by: David Tennant, full cast, Benedict Cumberbatch, Felicity Jones Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins 4.5 (853 ratings) Try for 0.00 1 title per month from Audible’s entire catalog of best sellers, and new releases. Surrounded by her wealthy and privileged cousins, and continually reminded of her lower status by her bullying Aunt Norris, Fanny grows up timid and shy, but with a strong sense of ethics, partly instilled by her kindly cousin Edmund. Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austens first mature work and, with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, one of her most profound. This was also the first of her novels which was not a revision of an earlier work. It was published on and was Austens third published novel though, as with all of her novels, her name was not attached to it until after her death. Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's 1814 novel focusing on Fanny Price, the daughter of a poor Portsmouth family, who is taken to live with her aunt and uncle Bertram's family on their estate at the age of ten. Jane Austen began planning Mansfield Park in February of 1811 and finished it in the summer of 1813.

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Mansfield Park by Jane Austen