Mansfield Park

Review "Listeners...will be rewarded with Austen's brilliant commentary on the society of her day and by Johanna Ward's solid reading...this is a lively and interesting choice for admirers of Jane Austen."-- "AudioFile""Never did any novelist make more use of an impeccable sense of human values."-- "Virginia Woolf, praise for the author""The technique of the novels is beyond praise, and has been praised. Her mastery of the art she chose, or that chose her, is complete: how she achieved it no one will ever know."-- "Elizabeth Bowen, New York Times bestselling author""There's no one to touch Jane [Austen] when you're in a tight place."-- "Rudyard Kipling, praise for the author"Jane Austen paints some witty and perceptive studies of character.-- "School Library Journal"Lots of people (including Austen's mother) find the heroine Fanny 'insipid, ' but as a shy person I identify with her and love how she learns to speak up for herself.-- "Alison Bechdel, New York Times bestselling author" Product Description Listenerswill be rewarded with Austen's brilliant commentary on the society of her day and by Johanna Ward's solid reading.this is a lively and interesting choice for admirers of Jane Austen.AudioFile About the Author Jane Austen (1775-1817) is considered by many scholars to be the first great woman novelist. Born in Steventon, England, she later moved to Bath and began to write for her own and her family's amusement. Her novels, set in her own English countryside, depict the daily lives of provincial middle-class families with wry observation, a delicate irony, and a good-humored wit.Johanna Ward (a.k.a. Kate Reading) is an Audie Award-winning narrator and has received numerous Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine. She is also a theater actor in the Washington, DC, area and has been a member of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company since 1987. Her work onstage has been recognized by the Helen Hayes Awards Society, among others. She and her husband live in Hyattsville, Maryland, with their two children.