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Mansfield Park
EN USISBN: 1492927155 bzw. 9781492927150, in Englisch, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, In Stock.
classics,criticism and theory,history and criticism,literary,literature and fiction,teen and young adult, Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons. Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reve.
classics,criticism and theory,history and criticism,literary,literature and fiction,teen and young adult, Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons. Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reve.
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Mansfield Park
EN PB USISBN: 9781492927150 bzw. 1492927155, in Englisch, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Taschenbuch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Shipping costs to: USA.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Discover Books.
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Paperback. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, that'll have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Discover Books.
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Paperback. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, that'll have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.
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Mansfield Park
EN PB USISBN: 9781492927150 bzw. 1492927155, in Englisch, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Taschenbuch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Shipping costs to: USA.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, HawkingBooks.
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. PAPERBACK. 1492927155 Very Good Condition. Has some wear. Five star seller - Buy with confidence! . Very Good.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, HawkingBooks.
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. PAPERBACK. 1492927155 Very Good Condition. Has some wear. Five star seller - Buy with confidence! . Very Good.
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Mansfield Park (2013)
EN PB USISBN: 9781492927150 bzw. 1492927155, in Englisch, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Taschenbuch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, plus shipping, Shipping area: DOM.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Owls Books, OH, Toledo, [RE:4].
Paperback.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Owls Books, OH, Toledo, [RE:4].
Paperback.
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