貧しさゆえに蔑まれながら生きてきた少女が、幸せな結婚をつかむまでの物語。優しさと機知に富む一方で、鋭い人間観察眼によって容赦なく俗物を描く、英国が誇る十九世紀初 ...

作者オースティンの作品は、すべて田舎に住む紳士階級の適齢期の娘たちの身の振り方を中心とし、それを取り巻く田舎の小世界の人間関係を題材としている。本作の主人公ファ ...

作者オースティンの作品は、すべて田舎に住む紳士階級の適齢期の娘たちの身の振り方を中心とし、それを取り巻く田舎の小世界の人間関係を題材としている。本作の主人公ファ ...

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Fanny Price, a teenaged girl of low social rank brought up on her wealthy relatives' countryside estate, feels the sharp sting of rejection when her cousin Edmund, the only person who treats her as an equal, is won over by a flirtatious, ...

About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's ...

A subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, Mansfield Park is one of Jane Austen’s most profound works.

Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austen's first mature work and, with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, one of her most profound.