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Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each readers understanding of these enduring works. From its sharply satiric opening sentence, Mansfield Park dealas with money and marriage, and how strongly they affect each other. Shy, fragile Fanny Price is the consummate poor relation. Sent to live with her wealthy uncle Thomas, she clashes with his spoiled, selfish daughters and falls in love with his son. Their lives are further complicated by the arrival of a pair of witty, sophisticated Londoners, whose flair for flirtation collides with the quiet, conservative country ways of Mansfield Park.Written several years after the early manuscripts that eventually became Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park retains Austens familiar compassion and humor but offers a far more complex exploration of moral choices and their emotional consequences. Amanda Claybaugh is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She also wrote the Introduction and Notes for the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Uncle Toms Cabin.

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Mansfield Park

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world and ten to - photo 1

Give a girl an education, and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. (page 6)


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.

(page 40)


The politeness which she had been brought up to practise as a duty made it impossible for her to escape; while the want of that higher species of self-command, that just consideration of others, that knowledge of her own heart, that principle of right which had not formed any essential part of her education, made her miserable under it. (page 80)


Oh, do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. (page 84)


A clergyman has nothing to do but to be slovenly and selfishread the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work, and the business of his own life is to dine. (page 97)


Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. (page 97)


There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! (pages 180-181)


A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it. (page 184)


Human nature needs more lessons than a weekly sermon can convey. (page 215)


To her, the cares were sometimes almost beyond the happiness; for, young and inexperienced, with small means of choice, and no confidence in her own tastethe how she should be dressed was a point of painful solicitude. (page 220)


A sermon, well delivered, is more uncommon even than prayers well read. (page 295)


She saw nobody in whose favour she could wish to overcome her own shyness and reserve. The men appeared to her all coarse, the women all pert, everybody underbred. (page 343)


The indignities of stupidity, and the disappointments of selfish passion, can excite little pity. (page 403)

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Published by Barnes & Noble Books
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New York, NY 10011


www.barnesandnoble.com/classics


Mansfield Park was first published in three volumes in 1814 .


Published in 2004 by Barnes & Noble Classics with new Introduction,
Notes, Biography, Chronology, Inspired By, Comments & Questions,
and For Further Reading.


Introduction, Notes, and For Further Reading

Copyright 2004 by Amanda Claybaugh.

Note on Jane Austen, The World of Jane Austen and Mansfield Park,
Inspired by Mansfield Park, and Comments & Questions
Copyright 2004 by Barnes & Noble, Inc.


All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or
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Mansfield Park

ISBN-13: 978-1-59308-154-6 ISBN-10: 1-59308-154-5

eISBN : 978-1-411-43265-9

LC Control Number 2004102767


Produced and published in conjunction with:

Fine Creative Media, Inc.

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Jane Austen

The English novelist Jane Austen was born December 16 1775 the seventh of - photo 4

The English novelist Jane Austen was born December 16, 1775, the seventh of eight children, in the Parsonage House of Steventon, Hampshire, where she spent her first twenty-five years. During her brief lifetime Austen witnessed political unrest, revolution, war, and industrialization, yet these momentous events are not the central subjects of her finely focused novels. Rather, Austen wrote of her immediate experience: the microcosm of the country gentry and its class-conscious insularity. Janes father, the Reverend George Austen, was the erudite country rector of Steventon, and her mother, Cassandra (ne Leigh), was descended from an aristocratic line of learned clergymen. By no means wealthy, the Austens nonetheless enjoyed a comfortable, socially respectable life, and greatly prized their childrens education.

Jane and her beloved elder (and only) sister, Cassandra, were schooled in Southampton and Reading for a short period, but most of their education took place at home. Private theatrical performances in the barn at Steventon complemented Janes studies of French, Italian, history, music, and eighteenth-century fiction. An avid reader from earliest childhood, Jane began writing at age twelve, no doubt encouraged by her cultured and affectionate family. Indeed, family and writing were her great loves; despite a fleeting engagement in 1802, Austen never married. Her first two novels, Elinor and Marianne and First Impressions, were written while at Steventon but never published in their original form.

Following her fathers retirement, Jane moved in 1801 with her parents and sister to Bath. That popular watering hole, removed from the country life Jane preferred, presented the sociable young novelist with a wealth of observations and experience that would later emerge in her novels. Austen moved to Southampton with her mother and sister after the death of her father in 1805. Several years later the three women settled in Chawton Cottage in Hampshire, where Austen resided until the end of her life. She relished her return to the countryside and, with it, a renewed artistic vigor that led to the revision of her early novels. Sense and Sensibility, a reworking of Elinor and Marianne, was published in 1811, followed by Pride and Prejudice, a reworking of First Impressions, two years later.

Austen completed four more novels (Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion) in the Chawton sitting room. Productive and discreet, she insisted that her work be kept secret from anyone outside the family. All of her novels were published anonymously, including the posthumous release, thanks to her brother Henry, of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.

The last years of Austens life were relatively quiet and comfortable. Her final, unfinished work, Sanditon, was put aside in the spring of 1817, when her health sharply declined and she was taken to Winchester for medical treatment of what appears to have been Addisons disease or a form of lymphoma. Jane Austen died there on July 18, 1817, and is buried in Winchester Cathedral.

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