Mansfield Park

I have some doubt about my ability to finish Mansfield Park, were I not watching the pages go by and stopping after every fifty. It's long, for an Austen novel, and it's slower and less gripping than say, Pride and Prejudice. I liked it-- that's not the problem-- but it was a trial. But then, I've always found Austen difficult to get into for the first ten to thirty pages. At different times in the past, I've started reading Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion, and I just stopped within those first few pages and didn't pick the books up again for years.

So, Mansfield Park. It's moral, less witty, and apparently is known as being the most like a Victorian novel in Austen's group of works. A lot of people have trouble with the heroine, Fanny Price, because she is so retiring and modest and quiet and-- sometimes-- weak. I liked her well enough, though.

A summary can be found here.