Mansfield Park

Aged ten, Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthier relations, the Bertrams, at Mansfield Park. However, life there is not as she imagined. Treated with disdain by three of her cousins, she finds her only comfort in the kindness of the fourth, Edmund. As they grow, their friendship develops into romantic love - until the arrival of Henry Crawford and his charming sister Mary causes an emotional upheaval that no one in the family expects. With psychological insight and sparkling wit, Jane Austen paints an irresistibly lifelike portrait of shifting values and split loyalties.This gorgeous edition of Mansfield Park is delightfully illustrated by the celebrated Hugh Thomson and includes an afterword by historian and author Nigel Cliff.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Austen
• Assisted by: Hugh Thomson (Illustration), Thomson Hugh (Illustration), Nigel Cliff (Introduction), Cliff Nigel (Introduction)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.07.2016
• EAN: 9781909621718
• ISBN: 978-1-909621-71-8
• No. of pages: 584
• Dimensions: 100 mm x 158 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Satire, Women, London, Greater London, Coming of age, Historical romance, FICTION / Friendship, Regency, FICTION / Satire, Friendship, c 1800 to c 1900, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Literary, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1811 to c 1820 (Regency period), Family Life / General, Romance / Historical / Victorian, Romance / Historical / Regency, Regency style, mothers day; mothering sunday