Mansfield Park By Jane Austen

Jane Austen paints an irresistibly lifelike portrait of shifting values and split loyalties in Mansfield Park with psychological insight and sparkling wit. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers, stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized. For any book lover, these pretty books make perfect gifts or a treat. Hugh Thomson illustrates this edition beautifully and includes an afterword by Nigel Cliff, the historian, and author. Fanny Price, aged ten, is sent to live in Mansfield Park with her wealthier relations, the Bertrams. Life there, however, is not as she envisioned. Treating three of her cousins with disdain, she finds her only comfort in the kindness of the fourth, Edmund. Their friendship develops into romantic love as they grow-until the arrival of Henry Crawford and his charming sister Mary causes an emotional upheaval that no one expects in the family.