Mansfield Park

　　《曼斯菲爾莊園》是珍．奧斯汀曠世名作。作者以生動、細膩的筆調描繪了十八世紀英國鄉間的民情風習，反映了英國社會交替時期的風貌。芬妮出身貧寒，卻始終懷抱一顆善良的心。對於愛情，芬妮重視的不是金錢，而是人品和心靈，在情愛糾葛中，她始終立場堅定，終於以純潔、高尚贏得真愛的眷顧。

　　Begun in 1811 at the height of Jane Austen's writing powers and published in 1814, Mansfield Park marks a conscious break from the tone of her first three novels, Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice, the last of which Austen came to see as "rather too light." Fanny Price is unlike any of Austen's previous heroines, a girl from a poor family brought up in a splendid country house and possessed of a vast reserve of moral fortitude and imperturbability. She is very different from Elizabeth Bennet, but is the product of the same inspired imagination.