Mansfield Park (Wordsworth Classics) [平裝] (曼斯菲爾德莊園)

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This Wordsworth Edition includes an Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality, old-fashioned indifference and priggish disapproval of those around her.

善良懂事的范妮由於家境窮困，從小被寄養在富裕的姨媽家。姨媽家的兩個表姐雖然聰敏美麗，但都高傲任性，幸虧表兄埃德蒙的親切關懷，才使她在寄人籬下的生活中得到安慰和快樂。成年後的范妮也常隨表姐表兄參加社交聚會，他們在牧師家裡結識了風流倜儻的青年克勞福德和他的妹妹瑪麗。埃德蒙對美麗機智的瑪麗一見傾心，范妮的兩個表姐則拚命追求克勞福德，未料克勞福德在逢場作戲後發現自己真心喜歡的是范妮，而范妮深愛的卻始終是溫和真誠的埃德蒙……陷入感情糾葛的這幾對青年男女最後的結局出人意料，卻也在情理之中。
范妮是個出身貧寒的少女，寄住在姨父伯特倫爵士家。面對紈褲子弟的糾纏、表兄的放浪形骸和心中的暗戀對象，溫柔善良的范妮要何去何從？高尚的品德是否能為她贏得伯特倫爵士的器重和埃德蒙的愛？