Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
A quiet, overlooked girl pines for her kind cousin while he falls for the dazzling wrong woman.
Description
Fanny Price, a teenaged girl of low social rank brought up on her wealthy relatives' countryside estate, feels the sharp sting of rejection when her cousin Edmund, the only person who treats her as an equal, is won over by a flirtatious, exciting--and unprincipled--London girl.
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