038693
London
1994
11×18
meki
479
engleski
Cijena: 6,00 EUR
Jane Austen's third and psychologically most complex novel represents a deep and layered study of morality, social standing, and family relations from the beginning of the 19th century. The plot follows the life of Fanny Price, a quiet, sensitive, and virtuous girl from a poor family who is taken in by her wealthy relatives at the magnificent Mansfield Park estate. Growing up in the shadow of her privileged cousins, Fanny is constantly subjected to subtle neglect and reminders of her lower social status, finding her only true comfort and support in her cousin Edmund. The peaceful life on the estate is disrupted by the arrival of charming and wealthy newcomers from London, the brother and sister Henry and Mary Crawford, whose superficial views on the world, penchant for flirting, and theatrical intrigues test the moral values and feelings of all the household members. Unlike her other, more lighthearted novels, Austen offers a significantly darker and more serious tone in this work, questioning the price of tradition, social conventions, and true virtue. The edition is accompanied by useful notes that bring the historical context and subtle nuances of Regency-era British society closer to the modern reader. Jane Austen (1775–1817) is considered today one of the greatest and most widely read female authors in the history of world literature. Although she spent her entire life in the relative isolation of the English countryside, within a close circle of family and the lower gentry, her sharp eye for human foibles, brilliant irony, and revolutionary writing style secured her immortality. Austen dissected the social reality of her time with incredible precision, and her novels, though seemingly focused on the quest for the ideal marriage, actually represent a powerful critique of economic dependence and the limited life choices of women in the society of that era.
