[Pocket Edition] World Literature Masterpieces Library - Mansfield Park

Author: (English) Austen
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: Mansfield Park is one of Austen's most loyal, mature, and modernly resonant long novels. The work emphasizes the importance of traditional virtue and is a labor of love that is heavy-handed, profound in meaning, and meticulously depicted. It is an immortal masterpiece of Austen, alongside 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 comparable to Shakespeare in terms of immortality.