Author:Jane Austen
The Penguin English Library Edition of Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
'We have all been more or less to blame ... every one of us, excepting Fanny'
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste for flirtation. Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austen's first mature work and, with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, one of her most profound.
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The collected letters of Kurt Vonnegut include some remarkable examples of epistolary eloquence… it is the tender letters to his youngest daughter, Nanette, that are the jewel of this collection
—— Jane Shilling , Sunday Telegraph SevenOne closes this volume...full of gratitude for Dan Wakefield...the editor of this labour of love that gives us one more reason to love Kurt Vonnegut
—— John Sutherland , The TimesThis collection is perhaps the best insight into the everyday needles of a prolific author you could hope to read
—— Ed Caesar , Sunday TimesSplendidly assembled and edited by Dan Wakefield . . . [Vonnegut’s] familiar, funny, cranky, acute voice . . . is chronicling his life in real time.
—— New York Times Book ReviewDroll and self-deprecating letters offer intriguing insights into Vonnegut’s life
—— Sunday TimesThis miraculous volume of selected letters provides a moving and revelatory portrait of the famed author of Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat’s Cradle. . . . Fans will find the collection as spellbinding as Vonnegut’s best novels, and casual readers will discover letters as splendid in their own way as those of Keats.
—— Publisher's WeeklyA laughing prophet of doom
—— New York TimesUnimitative and inimitable social satirist
—— Harper'sA satirist with a heart, a moralist with a whoopee cushion, a cynic who wants to believe
—— Jay McInerneySplendidly assembled and edited
—— Kurt Andersen , ScotsmanUnique
—— Doris LessingKurt Vonnegut never regarded himself as a great writer. But he did possess that undervalued gift of charm, of sociability. There are authors we admire or envy, but there are just a few we really, really love, and Vonnegut is one of them.
—— Washington Times[Reveals] Vonnegut’s passions, annoyances, loves, losses, mind and heart . . . The letters stand alone—and stand tall, indeed. . . . Vonnegut’s most human of hearts beats on every page
—— Kirkus ReviewsA well-rounded collection of letters
—— James Campbell , Guardian[The letters] have a directness and a consistency, a scruffy but ensnaring humanity… Kurt seems by turns kind, engaged, imaginative, witty, self-deprecating (“I write with a big black crayon… grasped in a grubby, kindergarten fist,”) and – on various fronts – courageous
—— Keith Miller , Daily TelegraphCrisply edited... There was something fundamentally goodhearted about Vonnegut. For all his gloom and cantankerousness, he never entirely lost his faith in human nature.
—— John Preston , Spectator
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