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Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality, old-fashioned indifference and priggish disapproval of those around her. Wordsworth Collector's Editions are compact cloth-bound hardbacks with matching coloured end papers, embossed gold and coloured blocking to enhance their beautiful, bespoke cover illustrations.

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Writer

Jane Austen

Language

English

ISBN

9781840227970

Number of pages

432

Category

Mansfield Park - Jane Austen

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged: no harm can be done.
We do not look in great cities for our best morality.
She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing...
I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
"I shall soon be rested," said Fanny; "to sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment."
it will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel, in some degree, as you do; who have not, at least, been given a taste for Nature in early life. They lose a great deal.
But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.