Mansfield Park (Wordsworth Classics)

Beautiful novel. These Wordsworth Classics are not only affordable, but they are just stunning! They make great gifts for the Classic booklover in your life or your favorite teacher. Not only is the story exceptional, but the cover and the ink renditions inside each novel are gorgeous. Highly recommend.

Great book for the price, the book cover is very paper like (without a second layer, feels rough) but again, for the price it’s what you get.

Very cute cover. I am satisfied

I'd been warned that Mansfield Park tends to be the least popular of Austen's novels. I'll grant you that I prefer novels where the action starts immediately or nearly so. I want to be able to identify with the protagonist. This story begins with exposition. It explains the background of the primary characters. I became very tired of the tone which is meant to display the snobbishness and class consciousness of the characters. So it's all explained in a high falutin manner which tells you in details (as well as in number of English pounds) what the various characters are worth. Page after page. By the time one gets to actually meet Fanny Price, the little girl who is sent away from her large disadvantaged family in London to live with her well-to-do relatives in the English countryside, you might be ready to throw the book across the room, but at least you will have an idea of what the poor girl is going to be up against. Once the story begins and there is dialogue, I found it more interesting, and a little before halfway through I was hooked. I wanted to find out how Fanny was going to fare in her new surroundings. Fanny is a timid girl. Every time a relative or acquaintance is kind to her and every time she manages to state her feelings clearly, you want to jump for joy. Now if you've read Jane Austen, you know that her sentences are extremely long and there is much ado about every event. But you might get caught up in the day-to-day dramas as there is a bit of comedy here as well as drama. Watch how a visit to her birth family's home affects Fanny--it's quite ironic and interesting. Can you go home again? You decide. At the end when the fate of Fanny and the other key characters is made known, I was disappointed because the book returned to exposition--telling rather than showing. It's a nice ending and I wanted to hear some conversation. I was sure that I was going to cry or at least have tears in my eyes, but the manner of closing the book was too cut and dried for me. I was disappointed. I'm giving it four stars because I loved Fanny and I enjoyed the story, but I wasn't always happy with the way it was told.

There’s a reason this novel is still in print after nearly 300 years. The writing is marvelous and the voice is Jane Austen’s. It’s a trrrific time.

Easy font to read and a classic story. Probably one of the least read of Jane Austin’s books.

Never having read a Jane Austen story i did not want to spend much. Price was right and it works.

I love Jane Austen books, this one was a very tedious read. Nothing exciting happens until the last fifty pages.

Una obra clásica más cercana a nuestra realidad contemporánea. Ciertamente más seria y dramática que otras obras de Austen, con mayor complejidad en los personajes en su análisis moral y psicológico.

Ottimo acquisto, arrivato rapidamente e senza danni.

Inhaltlich finde ich auch Mansfield Park sehr gelungen und zähle es zu meinen Lieblingen. Deshalb habe ich mir diese Buch zusätzlich zu meiner Gesamtausgabe geleistet. In dieser Rezension will ich mich also auf Mansfield Park in der Wordsworth Collection beziehen. Diese ist eine sehr günstige Ausgabe (2,80€) mit 384 Seiten, die qualitativ sehr von einer amerikanischen Taschenbuchausgabe zeugen, allerdings mit relativ vielen Illustrationen von Hugh Thomson (mehr als in meiner "Literary Classics" - punktet. Außerdem gibt's noch eine Einleitung und ein paar Notizen von Ian Littlewood von der University of Sussex. In den Notizen werden Kurzformen aus Austens Zeit erklärt - z.B., dass "the box" - "der Fahrersitz" bedeutet etc. - dies geschieht natürlich alles auf Englisch. Für Austen-Freunde, die eine günstige Ausgabe für unterwegs suchen genauso ideal für Austen-"Anfänger".

A capa é linda, mas o livro tem um aspecto bastante frágil (capa e folhas finas). Não tem orelha e a folha não chega a ser tipo jornal, mas é quase.

I first read this novel thirty years ago and had forgotten so much about it. I was really glad I re-discovered it. It is an elegant, romantic story which ends 'happily ever after'.