MANSFIELD PARK (Chiltern Edition)

Adopted into the household of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, Fanny Price grows up a meek outsider among her cousins in the unaccustomed elegance of Mansfield Park. Soon after Sir Thomas absents himself on estate business in Antigua (the family's investment in slavery and sugar is considered in the Introduction in a new, post-colonial light), Mary Crawford and her brother Henry arrive at Mansfield, bringing with them London glamour, and the seductive taste for flirtation and theatre that precipitates a crisis. While Mansfield Park appears in some ways to continue where Pride and Prejudice left off, it is, as Kathryn Sutherland shows in her illuminating Introduction, a much darker work, which challenges 'the very values (of tradition, stability, retirement and faithfulness) it appears to endorse'. This new edition provides an accurate text based, for the first time since its original publication, on the first edition of 1814.

Adoptata in gospodaria unchiului ei, Sir Thomas Bertram, Fanny Price creste o straina blanda intre verii ei, in eleganta neobisnuita din Mansfield Park. La scurt timp dupa ce Sir Thomas s-a absentat in afaceri imobiliare in Antigua (investitia familiei in sclavie si zahar este considerata in Introducere intr-o noua lumina post-coloniala), Mary Crawford si fratele ei Henry ajung la Mansfield, aducand cu ei glamourul londonez si gustul seducator pentru flirt si teatru care precipita o criza.