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Northanger Abbey
In this spirited comedy of manners Catherine Morland, a plain, unspoiled small-town girl on holiday in Bath, meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, a handsome young clergyman. Henry's father, believing Catherine to be wealthy, invites her to be a guest at Northanger Abby, the family's country estate. Catherine, who has read too many Gothic romances and who is possessed of too vivid an imagination, views the abbey as a house of nightmarish horror — an aspect of the book that gleefully parodies the fantastic Gothic romances by Ann Radcliffe and other popular writers of the period. An amusing assortment of misunderstandings and plot twists result in the satisfying romantic conclusion characteristic of the author’s works.
First written in 1789-99, when Austen was in her early twenties, this novel, like Persuasion, did not see publication till 1818, in the winter after the author's death. Distinguished by its satirical wit, brilliant comedy, and complex but subtle views of human nature and morality, the book also presents a fine background picture of middle-class life in nineteenth-century England, with particularly good scenes in Bath, the fashionable watering place to which Austen's father, a clergyman himself, had retired. Northanger Abbey is a must-read for all Austen fans and students of English literature.
First written in 1789-99, when Austen was in her early twenties, this novel, like Persuasion, did not see publication till 1818, in the winter after the author's death. Distinguished by its satirical wit, brilliant comedy, and complex but subtle views of human nature and morality, the book also presents a fine background picture of middle-class life in nineteenth-century England, with particularly good scenes in Bath, the fashionable watering place to which Austen's father, a clergyman himself, had retired. Northanger Abbey is a must-read for all Austen fans and students of English literature.
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In this spirited comedy of manners Catherine Morland, a plain, unspoiled small-town girl on holiday in Bath, meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, a handsome young clergyman. Henry's father, believing Catherine to be wealthy, invites her to be a guest at Northanger Abby, the family's country estate. Catherine, who has read too many Gothic romances and who is possessed of too vivid an imagination, views the abbey as a house of nightmarish horror — an aspect of the book that gleefully parodies the fantastic Gothic romances by Ann Radcliffe and other popular writers of the period. An amusing assortment of misunderstandings and plot twists result in the satisfying romantic conclusion characteristic of the author’s works.
First written in 1789-99, when Austen was in her early twenties, this novel, like Persuasion, did not see publication till 1818, in the winter after the author's death. Distinguished by its satirical wit, brilliant comedy, and complex but subtle views of human nature and morality, the book also presents a fine background picture of middle-class life in nineteenth-century England, with particularly good scenes in Bath, the fashionable watering place to which Austen's father, a clergyman himself, had retired. Northanger Abbey is a must-read for all Austen fans and students of English literature.
First written in 1789-99, when Austen was in her early twenties, this novel, like Persuasion, did not see publication till 1818, in the winter after the author's death. Distinguished by its satirical wit, brilliant comedy, and complex but subtle views of human nature and morality, the book also presents a fine background picture of middle-class life in nineteenth-century England, with particularly good scenes in Bath, the fashionable watering place to which Austen's father, a clergyman himself, had retired. Northanger Abbey is a must-read for all Austen fans and students of English literature.
Reprint of a standard edition.
wordsworth classics;1996 movie;title sense;soaring hopes;hypochondriac father;charity school;rich bachelor;romantic dalliances;proper marriage;earlier death;pride prejudice;father sir;edward rochester;bennet girls;mildly spoiled;frank churchill;thornfield hall;wealthy uncle;kellynch hall;unconventional love;social graces;film versions;lowood school;thrushcross grange;colonel brandon;newcomers alike;penguin classics;gothic romance;mansfield park;somewhat spoiled;wuthering heights;bront;broadview;spacks;bertrams;crawfords;hindley;mainwarring;highbury;earnshaw;sanditon;hareton;ferrars;1847;annotation;fairfax;knightley;willoughby;elton;northanger;heathcliff;bingley;wickham;edmund;persuasion;bbc;sensibility;oxford;relation;elizabeth anne;elizabeth bennett;frederick wentworth anne;anna karenina;catherine morland;mrs musgrove;anne eliot;darcy;susan j wolfson;walter elliott;lizzie bennett;miss austen;jj feild;mrs croft;ann radcliffe;henry miss morland;diana peterfreund;henry catherine;tilney henry;mrs smith;russell anne;england;austin;britain;books on charity schools;books on pride prejudices;books on bertrams;books on mansfield parks;books on 1996 movies;books on title senses;books on film versions;books on bronts;books on wordsworth classics;books on broadview;books on proper marriages;books on edward rochesters;books on penguin classics;books on gothic romances;books on bennet girls;books on crawfords;books on spacks;books on rich bachelors;books on wuthering heights
