Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram and their family are fortunate residents of Mansfield Park. Living with them is Fanny Price, Lady Bertram's niece. Raised away from her parents, Fanny soon becomes an indispensable part of the household. It is her earnest and quiet character that holds the family together during Thomas's absence abroad. A family theatrical production loosens social conventions that normally govern the household and dangerous alliances threaten the stability of the family. In Fanny's steadfastness is her reward, but not before a great deal of cruel suffering ensues...
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"Hodder Headline Audiobooks" presents abridged readings of some of the finest in drama, classic literature, popular fiction, poetry, children's stories, and religious and inspirational works. Among Hodder Headline's outstanding cast of readers and performers are Kenneth Branagh, Juliet Stevenson, Simon Callow, Stephen Fry, and Dame Judi Dench. Each set of cassettes is beautifully packaged and shrink-wrapped.
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Jane Austen was born in 1775. She never married, and had no contact with the London literary circle; she, nevertheless, elevated her life, - a"little world of struggling clerical families, husband-hunting mothers and daughters, eligible clergymen and landowners, country fools and snobs" - into an enduring microcosm of the great world through her writings, distinguished by her "satirical wit and brilliant comedy, complex and subtle view of human nature, exquisite moral discrimination, and unobtrusive perfection of style.
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