• Mansfield Park (Naxos Edition)

  • By: Jane Austen
  • Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
  • Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,368 ratings)

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Mansfield Park (Naxos Edition)

By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
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At the tender age of 10, Fanny Price is 'adopted' by her rich relations and is removed from the poverty of her home in Portsmouth to the opulence of Mansfield Park. The transplantation is not a happy one. Dependent, helpless, neglected and forgotten, Fanny struggles to come to terms with her new life until, tested almost to the limits of endurance, she assumes her rightful role....

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From the many reviews I've read, I know this novel isn't that popular among Jane Austen fans, most finding the heroine Fanny Price to be too much of a wallflower for a lead character. To me it seemed like she was on the contrary a young woman of conviction with a strong moral fiber, who seemed to have more depth than the leading young women in the other two novels I've read by Jane Austen (S&S and P&P), which I found too frothy for my liking. The secondary characters were very entertaining; indeed, their presence was essential in moving the story forward and providing plenty of spice and drama. Excellent performance by Juliet Stevenson, who is one of my favourite narrators.

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Oh such felicity, such gaiety, such rapture!

I had read this book before but many years ago and like so many others knew Jane Austen from Pride and Prejudice and more from the tv series than reading the book. However, Jane is at her most observational in this book - characters are so real that they are recognisable from people we know today and she is also at her most cynical - the wit is brilliant. Its a fantastic book and Juliet Stevenson is masterly in her narration. If I could have given it six stars I would have done!

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Jane Austen and Juliet Stevenson

If you like Jane Austen you can't do better than Juliet Stevenson. She manages all of the characters' voices, including the men' and the narrator's, providing a dramatic yet sensitive reading catching what we might imagine was Austen's own voice. Each time I listen to one of the books I hear a new line or thread in the narration that I didn't catch before. Love them all.

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classic, great narrator, long...

Well, it's a classic. I love this type of story so it appeals to me right up front. This narrator is the best at this type of story. Just only negative is it's so long and somewhats meanders so much that I almost quit out of boredom but then it would pick up again. Descriptions are wonderful - I like listening to it.

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Well read and Well edited

An exceptional narration and abridgement of a classic. But I bought it because of the narrator Juliette Stevenson.....superb.

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People tend to come down hard on Fanny...

I actually really enjoyed this book. There are a number of reviews where people harp on the frailty of Fanny Price and her timid nature. While, she is no Elizabeth Bennett... I do think there is something to be said about the true soul of Miss Price. She lives in a world where she has been told again & again that her station was beneath those around her. Wouldn't being sent away from parents and siblings to a world of fashion and elegance where people make sure you know that you are inferior and should be grateful of EVERYTHING could make one want to blend into the background? I think that Henry Crawford starting his attentions just to relieve boredom by making her fall in love with him and then falling in love with her because of her nature and how different it is to those around her. I'm ashamed to say that I watched the 1999 movie before reading the book. I like the relationship with her brother; who is not in the movie at all. But, I prefer that Edmund seems to love Fanny all along in the movie rather then the original story of disappointment in Mary showing him the benefit of Fanny. Still, it's worth the credit.

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A great book of a girl comming of age.

A well spoken narrator reads this book with the upmost perfection. "A timless classic"

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Fanny Price, ugh!

Juliet Stevenson's narration is superb in all the audiobooks I've listened to, but even her skill cannot lift Mansfield Park to the heights of Pride and Prejudice. Fanny Price is a drip! Edmund is a doofus! The story is a treadmill of reiteration! But if you feel compelled to read Mansfield Park anyway, this edition is the best I've heard. For those not familiar with Jane Austen's works I recommend Northanger Abbey. It's goofy on purpose.

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Mansfield Park is perhaps Austen’s least favorite novel among readers. It celebrates a heroine who is not witty or popular or rich; rather, she is insightful, reserved and virtuous. Furthermore, the most superficially attractive characters turn out to be the villains. If you must have an Elizabeth Bennet or a Mr. Darcy to love, this book may disappoint you.

But if you are willing to be patient, to steep yourself in this world which, more than that of other Austen novels, reveals the distance between then and now, you will find rewards. More than her other novels, this is a story of a whole family, whose members learn and grow, or fail to learn and suffer consequences. We see into the lives not just of the rich family at the eponymous estate, but also into the home of their relatively poor cousins. And in the heroine, Austen paints an acute and sympathetic picture of a shy and sensitive person who, despite being completely dependent on relatives who mostly see her as someone to exploit, remains true to her principles.

As in the other Austen titles in this series, Juliet Stevenson gives a beautiful, intelligent performance.

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Imbalanced presentation

I was disappointed to discover that, in Ms. Stevenson's rendering, the good-hearted Fanny and Edmond come across as so flat and priggish that I couldn't finish listening to the book! On the other hand, she does a great job bringing the less likable characters to vibrant life.

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