Interesting story. Not sure how I felt about it. It had it's good points and bad ones. Not memorable.
Although Austen's books are labeled romance, they often have very little romance in them. This book has Fanny in love with her cousin and completely aware of it, but he doesn't love her back until the very last chapter.
This is a very unmemorable book. There are a few good lines, but I was actually quite bored while reading it. Not to say that I disliked it, but Fanny is fairly unremarkable as a heroine. You don’t get the sense of desperation of her situation or her relationships as you do with many of the other Au...
Goodness but this book was dated. I could not like the heroine, a mousy, compliant creature who can't snip roses for a couple of hours without wearing herself out and alarming her caring, stiff cousin, for whom she harbours a passion, which of course she would never voice because that would be impro...
Mansfield Park is a departure from what I thought the "typical" Jane Austen novel would be. There is a seriousness and complexity to Mansfield Park that is almost absent in books like "Pride and Prejudice" or "Emma". Somehow the stakes are higher, the situation more desperate, and the outcome more...
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