Celebrated Translations -- Mansfield Park (Color Illustrations Edition)

Author: (English) Austen, translated by Mi Pei
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Publishing Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This young lady excels at depicting the various entanglements, emotions, and characters of ordinary life. Her talent, I believe, is outstanding and something I have never seen before. Among the Scotts' writers, none come close to the master Shakespeare in terms of technique than Jane Austen. This woman is truly a pride of England. She has created a large number of memorable characters. To be precise, there are two distinct tendencies in the works of Jane Austen: she is both a moralist and a humorist, and these two tendencies are often blended, even completely merged.
In "Mansfield Park," like her other novels, the story revolves around the love and marriage of young men and women. The heroine, Fanny, is a poor girl who was adopted by her aunt and uncle, Sir Bertram and Lady Bertram, at the age of ten. In their household, she is neglected by everyone except her second cousin Edmund, who treats her with care. She lives a life of dependence, but she always has a gentle and kind heart, discerning right from wrong and understanding the bigger picture. She firmly resists the attempt of her older cousins to stage a play with inappropriate content at home and steadfastly withstands the unreasonable persistence of the profligate Crawford. She remains unwavering in her secret love for Edmund, especially when Miss Crawford rekindles her old feelings for him. She warns her cousin not to be deceived by her pretense. In the end, her noble character earns the respect of Sir Bertram and the love of Edmund, and the novel concludes with Fanny and Edmund's happy marriage.
"Mansfield Park" is a long novel that represents Austen's most mature thoughts and most modern characters. The work emphasizes the importance of traditional virtues and is a labor of love that is heavy in tone, profound in meaning, and meticulously crafted. It is an immortal masterpiece of Austen, alongside works like "Pride and Prejudice," "Emma," and "Sense and Sensibility." Austen is one of the few renowned female writers in the history of world literature, a "miniature painter" and "domestic novelist" who straddles the lyricalism of the neoclassical and romantic movements. She is considered by literary critics to be a British writer who is comparable to Shakespeare in terms of immortality. She was praised by the British writer Somerset Maugham as a "truly great literary work."