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Sent to living with wealthy relatives, Fanny Price grows up overlooked until love and temptation expose the household around her.

Celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday with this beautiful gift edition of Mansfield Park, complete with foiled covers, marbled endpaper, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and a silk ribbon.

Sent to live with wealthy relatives, Fanny Price grows up at Mansfield Park as both family member and outsider. Her cousin Edmund is her one steady ally. When the glamorous Henry and Mary Crawford arrive, flirtation, theatre and temptation disturb the household, and Fanny’s quiet judgement becomes more powerful than anyone expects.

Austen’s bold and brilliant novel examines privilege, class, moral pressure, love and growing up with subtle force. This Vintage Collector’s Classics hardback is a beautiful gift for Austen fans, classic fiction readers and collectors seeking a deluxe sprayed-edge edition for the shelf

Publisher Review

Full of the energies of discord – sibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion, and vanity * Margaret Drabble * Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire — J.K. Rowling Jane Austen at her most genteelly acerbic * The Times * Austen looks at her world with a cool, undressing gaze…she is a formidable opponent of hypocrisy and sentimentality * Observer *