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Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen
I have to say it. Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's depressing book. After reading Pride and Prejudice and Emma and Northanger Abbey, I was expecting another female protagonist with a lively wit and ready humor. Fanny Price was not that protagonist. About the only quality Fanny shares with her compatriots is a strong sense of self. There are times in Mansfield Park where other characters quite literally forget that she's in the room. But I have to wonder, is Mansfield Park the truest of Austen's novels?
Read the rest of my review at Summer Reading Project.
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