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Mansfield Park
- Author
- Jane Austen
- Narrator
- Juliet Stevenson
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Publish Date
- 1 September 2007
- Run Time
- 16 hours 50 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Classic fiction
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
What to expect
Critics Review
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The audiobooks I most cherish are Juliet Stevenson’s unabridged readings of Jane Austen, all of which are now available from Naxos AudioBooks. Austen’s novels were written in the knowledge that they would be read aloud: it’s easy to imagine both chuckles and tense intakes of breath as their characters display foibles familiar to all of us, get into scrapes and misadventures, and emerge stronger and wiser. Silver-tongued Juliet Stevenson makes herself the personification of Jane, never overplaying her low-key sarcasm or missing a necessary emphasis. I’ve just whiled away a cold with the one I know least well: Mansfield Park, the tale of how timid Fanny Price charmed the hearts of her wealthy and worldly relatives.
Christina Hardyment, The Times
User Reviews
Book 5.0
Narration 5.0
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5.0 5.0
Great narratoon for a great novel
Bagqueen1 2023-12-16
Details
- Author
- Jane Austen
- Narrator
- Juliet Stevenson
- Duration
- 16 hours 50 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 September 2007
- ISBN
- 9789629544515
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Genre
- Classic fiction
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
When timid, ten-year-old Fanny Price is plucked from her large, raucous and somewhat impoverished family in Portsmouth to live with wealthy relatives in Mansfield Park her life is changed for ever. Immediately forming a strong attraction for her cousin Edmund, she develops into a genteel and mature young woman, whose love for him remains undimmed despite the diversion brought into both their lives by the attractive but morally bankrupt Crawfords. With its suggestion of adultery, and written with all the wit and style of the mature Jane Austen, this is the work of a writer at the peak of her powers. It was published in 1814, and unlike its predecessors, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility which were revisions of her juvenile writing, Mansfield Park was completely original. Like its heroine Fanny Price, who develops during the course of the story to reach maturity, Jane Austen’s third published novel was a much more mature work from a writer of increasing experience.
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