Mansfield Park (200th Anniversary Edition) (1st Signet Classics ed. (Quinn afterword).)

200th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONMansfield Park is named for the magnificent, idyllic estate that is home to the wealthy Bertram family and that serves as a powerful symbol of English tradition and stability.

The novels heroine, Fanny Pricea poor relation living with the Bertramsis acutely conscious of her inferior status and yet she dares to love their son Edmundfrom afar.

With five marriageable young people on the premises, the peace at Mansfield cannot last.

Courtships, entertainments, and intrigues throw the place into turmoil, and Fanny finds herself unwillingly competing with a dazzlingly witty and lovely rival.

As Margaret Drabble points out in her incisive Introduction, the house becomes full of the energies of discordsibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion, and vanity, and the novel grows ever more engrossing right up to Mansfields final scandal and the satisfying conclusion.

Unique in its moral design and its brilliant interplay of the forces of tradition and change, Mansfield Park was the first novel of Jane Austens maturity, and the first in which the author turned her unerring eye on the concerns of English society at a time of great upheaval.With an Introduction by Margaret Drabble and an Afterword by Julia Quinn