Mansfield Park
Felicity Jones, David Tennant, and Benedict Cumberbatch star in BBC Radio 4's full-cast dramatisation of the novel by Jane Austen, one of the great English classics. Seeking a position in society, young Fanny Price goes to live with her rich aunt and uncle. But her life there is not as she might...
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Felicity Jones, David Tennant, and Benedict Cumberbatch star in BBC Radio 4's full-cast dramatisation of the novel by Jane Austen, one of the great English classics.
Seeking a position in society, young Fanny Price goes to live with her rich aunt and uncle. But her life there is not as she might wish.
Felicity Jones plays Fanny, whilst David Tennant is her cousin Tom and Benedict Cumberbatch his brother Edmund.
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Format: audiobook
ASIN: B00R6KU57A
Publish date: 2014-12-18
Publisher: BBC Worldwide
Minutes: 138
Edition language: English
"Here's harmony!" said she; "here's repose! Here's what may leave all painting and all music behind, and what poetry only can attempt to describe! Here's what may tranquilize every care, and lift the heart to rapture! When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wicke...
A few years ago, a friend of mine told me that "Mansfield Park" was her least favourite Jane Austen novel, because she thought Fanny Price an annoying, overly prissy, well-behaved and too timid character. Now that I've finally read it, my conclusion is that I don't share her opinion. I thought that ...
*3.5 starsI enjoyed this book, but I wasn't really that invested in the story or the characters. I do enjoy that this book doesn't focus that much on a romance, and that the romance which was in here was good. But this isn't my favorite Jane Austen book.
*3.5 starsI enjoyed this book, but I wasn't really that invested in the story or the characters. I do enjoy that this book doesn't focus that much on a romance, and that the romance which was in here was good. But this isn't my favorite Jane Austen book.
Interesting story. Not sure how I felt about it. It had it's good points and bad ones. Not memorable.