Sent to live among her wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park, quiet, overlooked Fanny Price watches her cousins chase fortune, fashion, and each other's affections - and refuses, again and again, to compromise what she knows is right, however unpopular it makes her. When a charming, morally slippery pair of newcomers arrives, the whole household's illusions start to crack.
Austen's most searching and least comfortable novel - less about romance than about integrity, and what it costs to hold onto it when no one else will.
Sent to live among her wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park, quiet, overlooked Fanny Price watches her cousins chase fortune, fashion, and each other's affections - and refuses, again and again, to compromise what she knows is right, however unpopular it makes her. When a charming, morally slippery pair of newcomers arrives, the whole household's illusions start to crack.
Austen's most searching and least comfortable novel - less about romance than about integrity, and what it costs to hold onto it when no one else will.