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Mansfield Park

  • 443 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 1814
  • 1,108 editions
  • Free to read

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1 About this book

Fanny Price is born to a poor family, but is sent to her mother's rich relations to be brought up with her cousins. There she is treated as an inferior by all except her cousin Edmund, whose kindness towards her earns him her steadfast love.

Fanny is quiet and obedient and does not come into her own until her elder cousins leave the estate following a scandalous play put on in their father's absence. Fanny's loyalty and love is tested by the beautiful Crawford siblings. But their essentially weak natures and morals show them for what they really are, and allow Fanny to gain the one thing she truly desires.

Good for readers who want: a love story, a coming-of-age story, and a book they can read free online.

  • Romance
  • Romance, historical
  • Coming of age
  • Classics
  • Family life
  • Domestic fiction
  • Adoptees
  • Poor families

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3 About Jane Austen

1775–1817

Jane Austen ( OST-in, AW-stin; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English writer known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security.

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