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    Mansfield Park

    Written by Jane Austen

    Narrated by Anna Bentinck

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    The backbone of Mansfield Park is based around the marriages of sisters Lady Bertram, Mrs. Norris, and Mrs. Price. Each of these sisters marries a man from a different social class. Lady Bertram marries an extremely wealthy baronet Sir Thomas Bertram; Mrs. Norris marries a clergyman that makes a decent living; and Mrs. Price marries a naval lieutenant, who is injured shortly after they marry causing his career to end with living in poverty. This tale revolves around Fanny Price, who lives in poverty until being sent to live with her wealthy Aunt Bertram. While received warmly at first, what unfolds is a life of cold neglect and further trouble in her new lifestyle.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateMar 22, 2016
    ISBN9781520002842
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    Jane Austen

    Jane Austen was born in 1775 in rural Hampshire, the daughter of an affluent village rector who encouraged her in her artistic pursuits. In novels such as Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma she developed her subtle analysis of contemporary life through depictions of the middle-classes in small towns. Her sharp wit and incisive portraits of ordinary people have given her novels enduring popularity. She died in 1817.

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    • 4/5
      Ms. Austen was a bit too moralistic in this tale for my tastes. I appreciated her sly wit, and the depths of her characterization, and her general humanity; but the 19th century moralizing was too annoying. And my 20th/21st century tastes led me to prefer Emma's overconfident, flawed, snobbish heroine, to the underconfident, meek-except-in-virtue Fanny. One point of comparison between Emma and Mansfield Park was favorable to neither: The emphasis on a young woman being shaped since childhood by a man making her his best fit as a spouse. Ick.
    • 5/5
      Miss Frances, the youngest Ward sister, "married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a lieutenant of marines, without education, fortune, or connections, did it very thoroughly. She could hardly have made a more untoward choice." Some years later, pregnant with her ninth child, Mrs. Price appeals to her family, namely to her eldest sister and her husband, Sir Thomas Bertram, for help with her over-large family. Sir Thomas provides assistance in helping his nephews into lines of work suitable to their education, and takes his eldest niece, Fanny Price, then ten years old, into his home to raise with his own children. It is Fanny's story we follow in Mansfield Park.
    • 5/5
      Delightful
    • 5/5
      Listening on CD -- the reader is very good at distinguishing the characters' voices. So far (1/4 in)I'm finding it to be just as entertaining as every other Jane Austen I've read. Can't wait to find out what happens next....
    • 4/5
      favorite austen novel
    • 4/5
      One of the lesser known novels by Jane Austen. The film made in 1999 was very poor and gives a false impression of Fanny Price's character and of the main action of the book. Anyone who has ever had an interfering or overbearing relative will appreciate the delineation of Aunt Norris. Anyone who has a weak, vacillating, self-indulgent friend or relative will appreciate the delineation of Aunt Bertram. This edition includes the text of the play, Lover's Vows, which became a bone of contention during an extended house party, as well as footnote, illustrations and an essay about the difficulties of travel by coach during this period.
    • 3/5
      I am honestly ambivalent about this book. The ending left me extremely dissatisfied; I was angry with the way things seemed to be going through much of the third volume, and the "solution" provided was far too sudden to be believable, nor was it itself satisfactory either; Fanny Price is easily one of the most obnoxious characters to read about that I've ever encountered; and the whole thing tended to reek a bit too often of stereotypical Victorian hyper-moral/sentimental sensibilities. And yet I was definitely emotionally involved, and never bored... An enigma of a reading experience. I strongly doubt I'll be going back through the novel again anytime soon in order to clarify my thoughts, however.
    • 4/5
      Mansfield Park is certainly not my favorite Jane Austen book. That being said, it's better than most books I've read, and I recall not being able to but it down when I first read it 10 years ago. Fanny Price is not necessarily a lovable character - give me Elizabeth Bennett anytime - but in her own moral way she is heroic in standing up for what she believes in. There are plenty of characters to dislike, and Austen excels in coloring them in a less than sympathetic manner.
    • 4/5
      I first read this book when I was 14 - it was the second Jane Austen book I read after Pride and Prejudice, which I loved. However, I found Mansfield Park dull and lacking the humour of Pride and Prejudice, and I didn't manage to finish it.I have read it again recently and this time I found that I enjoyed it. It's true that Fanny Price is not very interesting as a main character, but the book is still worth reading, particularly if you're a fan of Austen's other works.
    • 4/5
      I wasn't sure I was going to like Mansfield Park again at first. I read it some years ago and I remember liking it, but that was about all I remembered besides the name Fanny Price. Now that I've completed it I have to say I did enjoy it in the overall. I think it has most to do with Jane Austen's writing than anything, but after the first section, the story was quite absorbing.
    • 4/5
      Poor Fanny Price! Jane really puts her through the mill in this book! But I guess "all's well that ends well." ;)IMO, there were lots of details about everyone's feelings, conversations, and correspondence through the first 47 chapters. Then, it seemed to me like, Jane just got tired and decided to sum up the story in one final chapter. And "Bob's your uncle" the book's finished! Oh well, I enjoyed it overall. A traditional Jane Austen novel :)Also, I listened on my LibriVox app and the reader, Karen Savage, did a fantastic job!
    • 2/5
      My least favorite Austen, and the only one I can't bring myself to read again. (I didn't even like the movie). Fanny Price is, to use C.S. Lewis's word, insipid. She's also inactive, utterly boring, and often exasperating. I have sympathy for Mrs. Norris for abusing her -- I want to slap her myself, just to make her stop with the big pathetic eyes and vapid stare. She irritates me mightily. She is supremely uninteresting. She does not change in the slightest from the beginning of the book to the end, and those around her (who do manage some growth of a sort) follow the most obvious script. It doesn't even manage to be romantic. The only interesting characters are the Crawfords, and even they are nearly unacceptable.

      I might one day soften toward this moralistic tale in which Austen, to please her contemporary audience which was, apparently, at that time crying out for such, abandons much of her humor and ironic powers to preach. I doubt it, though.
    • 5/5
      Easily my favorite prose work from the 19th Century (written in English that is). I should have read this in high school but the canon for advanced readers has shifted over the years so I've just finished it for the first time.
    • 3/5
      For the length of this book, not much actually happened in the story. I liked some of the characters, though none was really very engaging and overall enjoyed the story but there seemed to be no spark in it. It lacked that special something that ramps a book from the ordinary to the pile of books to be read and re-read through the years. Not one of my favorite Austen novels.
    • 4/5
      You can see why Jane Austen is a star - she has such wonderfully developed characters that are so shrewdly observed and described to be compelling and believable across the centuries. While the plot events relate to a particular time, place and social setting; the busybody, the careful thinker, the gruff but caring father, and all the rest of the cast can be readily seen among the people we live with today. Mansfield Park has a more interesting plot line than Pride and Prejudice & Sense and Sensibility, dealing with the results of the poor cousin brought up with rich relatives. Lovely. (Read January 2011.)
    • 5/5
      I adored Mansfield Park! Yes -- the story gets off to a slow start, but you will reap an abundance of rewards in return for your patience. The book is downright funny at times. Mrs. Norris amuses as a stuffy, obsequious, and presumptuous busy-body, and Austen does a great job painting lazy Lady Bertram. Whatever did Sir Thomas see in her? In her usual understated manner, the author allows us to witness how Edmond and Fanny grow and become more self-aware and complete people. Austen brings to life the day-to-day emotional hyper-emotional drama of a small, closed society of early 18C Britain. From a modern perspective, it's fascinating to bring the author's account of those times to the mind's eye and contemplate how people endured it without repeatedly slitting their throats.
    • 4/5
      I LOVE LOVE LOVE this story. If I had more leisure time to read, it would have been more enjoyable. It, or the language I should say, is quite florid. It was pretty language but a bit much at times. I'm no writer but I believe I oculd have said in 2 or 3 pages what Jane Austen said in 6...though not as beautifully of course.I'm glad I read it though. Fanny Price and Edmond Bertram are great examples of what a human being should be. Everybody else just needs a good spanking!...okay except of course for William and Susan.
    • 5/5
      Another great Jane Austen novel. The depth of her characters never cease to amaze me. The entire time I was left wondering whether Fanny would fall for the devious Mr. Crawford or stick to her guns.
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed this book, but I have to say it's probably my least favorite Austen. It's a fairly good read if one is reading all of Austen's works, but if not, I'd probably skip it in favor of Pride & Prejudice.
    • 3/5
      Mansfield Park most definitely is not my favorite Jane Austen. As many reviewers have already mentioned, it's hard to like a book when you don't like any of the characters, not even Fanny. The plot moves along so slowly it's painful to read. And the ending! In the last few paragraphs of the entire book is it mentioned for the first time that Edmund may possibly have feelings for Fanny. I felt, once I had reached the end of the book, that I had read the book for nothing. All 400 pages seemed devoted to watching Edmund and Miss Crawford court each other while Fanny watched pitifully (and silently) from the sidelines. All in all, I don't see myself rereading this book. Ever.
    • 1/5
      Easily my least favorite of Austen's. The heroine is pretty dull, no Elizabeth Bennett spirit here. My main gripe with this story is that it’s all buildup with a very unsatisfying ending. Skip this one.
    • 4/5
      Fanny is definitely my favourite Austen woman...we'll definitely top 3. This book meant more to me this time around than any previous time if read it. As always Austen seems to go on about parts that truly do not add to the story and sometimes a lackluster ending ensues. I adore this novel but I am not immune to the facts that it's not always the strongest. Also Ed took his sweet time and I'll admit it wasn't as glamorous a admittance of love as some of other Austen's leading men
    • 4/5
      If I liked Fanny Price more, this would be my favorite Austen novel. As it is, I still think it is very very good and possibly the funniest of the bunch. But oh, Fanny, why didn't you marry Henry Crawford? You and Edmund bring out each other's worst and least attractive tendencies.
    • 3/5
      Finally continuing my goal to read all of Jane Austen this year. I can see why this is not a popular book of Austen's. I did try to like Fanny, but in the end it's very difficult. I understand how she was raised and I appreciate a more introverted hero, but it's hard to like her.

      I also realize that cousin marriage was not a big deal back then, but it's still creepy to me. Especially since they did grow up as siblings and he practically mentored her. I don't just read Jane Austen for the romance but having her moon over Edmund until he decides he loves her in the last few pages is just underwhelming.

      Honestly, she should have married Henry. I didn't like Mary and I don't know if it would have prevented the scandal but I think she should have married Henry.
    • 5/5
      Perhaps the least popular of Jane Austen's six major works, this is still one of my favourite novels of all time. Fanny Price, isn't a Elizabeth Bennet or a Emma Woodhouse but the character has it's own endearing charm (who could not admire a character who stays true to her own character, whilst constantly meeting with opposition and ill treatment and yet in the end still triumphs?) Similarly, the relationship between Fanny and Edmund is not a high-blown romantic drama but nevertheless is still wonderfully written.The tone is in some ways more serious than others but Austen's wit still sparkles through with characters such as Mrs Norris and her sister Lady Bertram. I have read this quite a few times now and each time I find more and more things to admire in it.
    • 1/5
      If I ever hear another word about the suitability of a particular person for marriage, it will be too soon. Yes, I know it is social commentary, but it could have been done in 100 pages. The plot was entirely predictable and the characters were completely two-dimentional.
    • 3/5
      I'd like to love Austen's character as much as she did, but I'm afraid she's too mealy-mouthed and self-effacing for my tastes.

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    • 3/5
      A very good story, as expected from Jane Austen. But I have to say, it's not one of my favorites. I had a hard time finding any of the characters sympathetic - Fanny and Edmund came across as so virtuous as to be prudish, while the rest were just foolish - except for Mrs. Norris, of course, who was just plain stupid and nasty. I think had Susan been more in the story I'd have ended up liking her best. But still, I enjoyed the reading of the story and it will probably be one I revisit every few years or so.
    • 4/5
      It was a little slow to get into.I found Edmund a bit of a prig.But I enjoyed it.
    • 4/5
      My favorite Austen book. I know I am in the minority for disliking Mr. Darcy and Lizzy and liking Fanny and Edmund, but having re-read both I still stand by my opinion.