Mansfield Park
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Narrated by:
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Beth Kesler
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By:
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Jane Austen
About this listen
Adopted into the household of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, Fanny Price grows up a meek outsider among her cousins in the unaccustomed elegance of Mansfield Park. Soon after Sir Thomas absents himself on estate business in Antigua (the family's investment in slavery and sugar is considered in the Introduction in a new, post-colonial light), Mary Crawford and her brother Henry arrive at Mansfield, bringing with them London glamour, and the seductive taste for flirtation and theatre that precipitates a crisis.
While Mansfield Park appears in some ways to continue where Pride and Prejudice left off, it is, as Kathryn Sutherland shows in her illuminating Introduction, a much darker work, which challenges 'the very values (of tradition, stability, retirement and faithfulness) it appears to endorse'. This new edition provides an accurate text based, for the first time since its original publication, on the first edition of 1814.
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Amazing book, fair narration
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Although generally clear, sometimes lapses into American pronounciation
Very soothing read...except
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Beth Kesler’s own website states that she is an “accent and dialect coach” in languages that include “received English pronunciation”. But from her reading, she clearly thinks that the word “sanguine” rhymes with “swine” rather than “thin” - and it is extraordinary that she does not know that “shew” is merely the 18th century spelling of “show” - and so pronounces it throughout the novel as “shoo”, which is agony to hear.
Ms Kesler also appears to believe that a Georgian lady would pronounce the word “enquiry” as “IN-querry”, which is laughable.
And you would think that anyone, let alone a so-called dialect coach, would know that the word “calm” should rhyme with “palm” - but from Ms Kesler’s lips, inexplicably, it becomes “corm”. Even the simple word “gone” is contorted into “gorn”, time after time throughout the reading - and it’s positively wince-making, every time you hear it.
The whole point of Audible should be to produce fluent and intelligent readings that are a pleasure to hear, and this has been the case with all the books I have listened to so far. But this mangling of the English language by an American reader, however well-meaning, was an absolutely miserable experience and an insult to one of our greatest writers.
EXCRUCIATING MANGLING OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
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Dreadful narration
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