Mansfield Park

Austen’s morally exacting novel of family influence, social ambition, performance, and the quiet resilience of Fanny Price.

At a glance Mansfield Park is one of Jane Austen’s most searching and morally intricate novels. Removed from her impoverished home and raised among wealthier relations, Fanny Price… That position gives the novel its special tension. Austen studies charm, vanity, flirtation, and authority with unusual patience, showing…

Why the novel endures

About this book A searching Austen novel about dependence, conscience, family theater, and the pressures that wealth, charm, and status exert on judgment.