Mansfield Park is a novel written by Jane Austen and published in 1814. The story follows the life of Fanny Price, a young girl who is sent to live with her wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park. Fanny is the daughter of a poor family and is taken in by her aunt and uncle, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, to live a life of luxury and privilege.Despite her gratitude for the opportunity, Fanny struggles to fit in with her new family and is often overlooked and mistreated by her cousins. However, she finds solace in the company of her cousin Edmund, who becomes her closest confidant and friend.As Fanny grows older, she becomes more aware of the social and moral issues that surround her. She witnesses the romantic entanglements of her cousins and their friends, including the flirtatious Mary Crawford and the charming but selfish Henry Crawford. Fanny's own feelings for Edmund also begin to develop, but she must navigate the complicated social expectations and pressures of her time.Throughout the novel, Austen explores themes of class, morality, and love, as Fanny struggles to find her place in a society that values wealth and status above all else. Mansfield Park is a nuanced and complex work of literature, and is widely regarded as one of Austen's most profound and insightful novels.About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.