Mansfield Park
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1816 second editionFirst publication
1814
Literature form
Novel
Genres
Literary
Writing language
English
Author's country
England
Length
Approx. 160,000 words
Notable lines
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.
— First line
"A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch."
"Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."
"You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere—"
On that event they removed to Mansfield; and the Parsonage there, which, under each of its two former owners, Fanny had never been able to approach but with some painful sensation of restraint or alarm, soon grew as dear to her heart, and as thoroughly perfect in her eyes, as everything else within the view and patronage of Mansfield Park had long been.
— Last line
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