Mansfield Park (version 2)

Narrator gets all the 5 stars ✨

(5 étoiles)

Heidi

4.5 stars for the quality of the audiobook and the narrator's skilled presentation. As usual, Karen Savage does not disappoint. Honestly, every time I listen to her performance I can't believe LibriVox is free. As for the text itself… I'm not quite sure how I feel about it. I don't find the plot to be anything special but at the same time I'm amazed that Austen managed to write this story in such a way that caught then sustained my interest. Her words combined with Karen Savage's narration transported me, and for five days I lived in Mansfield Park inside Fanny Price's head.

Great Reader

(5 étoiles)

A LibriVox Listener

I love listening to Karen Savage and Jane Austen novels and hope there would be more :) Mansfield Park is a bit less popular but especially after listening/reading multiple times and reflection it gains affection, just as Fanny does ;)

Wonderful voice artist

(4 étoiles)

F Gibson

For me, this is the harvest of Austen's novels to get my head around, as it's the one furthest away from 21st century perspectives. But that's OK - the novel wasn't written for the 21st century. However, the reader, Karen Savage, is unbelievably gifted in clarity and personification of the many characters. So, it becomes easier to immerse oneself in the world of the novel. An excellent reading of a tricky novel.

I came here to hate on the ending

(4 étoiles)

Ana Paula Kendall

I sometimes doubted that I was listening to an Austen's novel, because the heroine is so flawlessly pure in every thought and action and the style doesn't have much of the satirical humor we're used to - actually, how Fanny was treated as a child took me to Jane Eyre. Still, this was a great story and very hard to put down. The only thing that bugged me was ** spoiler alert ****** not even that they were cousins, raised like siblings, and that he pretty much molded her mind to his ideas since she was a child - which is... weird - but that Edmund didn't deserve Fanny. There were too many scenes where he neglected, embarrassed her or let other people treat her badly. I didn't wish Mary on him, but Fanny deserved better. I thought that the heroine was so perfect because the hero - Henry - had plenty of flaws to overcome in order to raise to her level. I much rather Henry, in the direction he was changing when trying to deserve her, than Edmund as he was. Fight me on this. Karen's reading was perfect, as always.

Great reader, but my least favorite of Austen's

(4 étoiles)

A LibriVox Listener

Excellently read by Ms. Savage. I try to read a Jane Austen novel every year and this is my third or fourth time through MP. Of her 6 main novels, it is my least favorite, probably because Fanny, while a moral, gentle, and deserving young woman, is weaker than some of Austen's other heroines, like Elizabeth Bennett, Emma, and the Dashwood gals. I like to see a young lady stand up and speak for herself a little more than Fanny does. I also don't feel like the love between Fanny and Edmund is developed enough, but rather thrown in at the end.

(5 étoiles)

Swashbuckler Fan

Like all the world I love Pride and Prejudice, and I think you’ll find Mansfield Park a fascinating pendant. Mary Crawford is another Lizzie Bennet, a mischievous wit, but whatever failings Lizzie’s parents have they are not vicious. Lizzy also has her almost impossibly good sister Jane and her Aunt Gardiner, Mary Crawford has only her too easily tempted brother. Austen seems less interested in the meek heroine, Fanny Price, who smacks more of Dickens than Austen. Karen Savage is always good. Here she is brilliant. I almost fell for her Mary Crawford — a tragic character in the end.

Mansfield Park ( version 2)

(5 étoiles)

A LibriVox Listener

Well read, entertaining and absorbing. Such a wordy work runs the risk of becoming bogged down in boring monotony, but Karen Savage maintains interest and impetus in this detailed portrait of life, manners and standards in the refined class of which Austen writes. More concerned with the minutae of the day to day lives of her characters than actual romantic development, the eloquence atones for the verbosity, with the prime romantic interest summarised in the final chapter

thoroughly enjoyable

(5 étoiles)

Alison Cox

of course, Karen Savage's reading is without flaw. I have never heard the entire story before and was surprised at the suspense. I was honestly wondering who Fanny and Edmond were going to end up with. What a great moral tale as the author addresses the contrasting views on adultery. How wide is the gulf between those who despise morality and those who insist on doing what is right and rejecting what is so blatantly wrong.