Name: Mansfield Park
SKU: 60656550
Price: 39.69 EUR
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Author: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9781986975902

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jane Austen

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

720

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x12.7x3.7 cm

Weight

0.70 kg.

ISBN13

9781986975902

Synopsis "Mansfield Park"

Mansfield Park is the third published novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1814. The novel tells the story of Fanny Price. She is still a girl when her uncles take her to her mansion in Mansfield Park, rescuing her from a life of difficulties and needs. There, before his frightened look, will parade a world of leisure and refinement in which the innocent amusements will feed machinations and seduction strategies. That world hides a dangerous truth and only Fanny, from its submissive silence, will be able to glimpse its consequences and threats. Mansfield Park recreates a familiar and social order that unravels and deceptively restores itself through the ambiguous eyes of a young girl who has been assigned the fate and destiny of a Cinderella. Published in 1814, Mansfield Park is probably the most dense and complex novel of the author, a prodigy of narrative architecture and psychological depth.

Jane Austen

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She was a British novelist who lived during the Georgian era. She was born in the rectory of Steventon (Hampshire). Her family belonged to the British gentry (rural nobility or agrarian bourgeoisie), a context she never left and in which she set all her works, always revolving around the marriage of her protagonist.

She has been portrayed in cinema on numerous occasions, sometimes faithfully reproduced, like the 1940 classic Pride and Prejudice directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier, and other times adapted to modern times, as is the case with Clueless, a loose adaptation of Emma. Other versions include Sense and Sensibility from 1995; Mansfield Park from 2000; and Pride and Prejudice in 2004 (directed by Gurinder Chadha) and in 2005 (directed by Joe Wright). However, the most faithful and perfect version of the book Pride and Prejudice to date is the series presented by the BBC starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. The interest that Jane Austen's work continues to arouse today shows the relevance of her thought and the influence she has had on subsequent literature. Her life has also been portrayed in film with the movie Becoming Jane (2007)

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