Description: When a poor cousin, Fanny Price, comes to live at the estate of the sophisticated Bertram family, she suffers both from the condescension of her haughty relatives and from the hopeless love she bears for their youngest son. Life becomes even more complicated when she is forced into a rivalry with a charming and vivacious newcomer. Fanny will have to question her most cherished beliefs about herself and her world as she struggles to make a home for herself. Displaying Austen's characteristic irony and perception. Mansfield Park delivers a scathing attack on social conventions that has earned it a reputation as her most controversial novel. This special edition of Mansfield Park features reproductions of a number of treasures from the archives of The New York Public Library, including a handwritten letter from Jane Austen to her elder sister, Cassandra, and Cassandra's own charming and whimsical drawings of the British kings and queens to illustrate her sister's youthful (and comic) History of England. Other reproductions, like the landscape designs of the architect Humphrey Repton, whose ideas about improving estates play an animated role in the novel, truly serve to bring the world of Mansfield Park alive for today's readers.

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