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Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey

Austen, Jane

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ISBN10: 0553211978
ISBN13: 9780553211979
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Sep 1 1985
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.71 Width: 4.20 Depth: 6.88
Language: English
Jane Austen's renowned satire about a teenage girl who longs to explore the world and become the hero of her own story--with an introduction by Caroline Levander

Jane Austen is the Rosetta stone of literature.--Anna Quindlen

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be a heroine.

Thus begins the earliest of Jane Austen's six major novels, Northanger Abbey, which remained unpublished until after Austen's death in 1817. A deliciously witty satire of popular Gothic romances, it is perhaps Austen's lightest, most delightful excursion into a young woman's world.

Catherine Morland, an unlikely heroine--unlikely because she is so ordinary--forsakes her English village for the pleasures and perils of Bath. There, among a circle of Austen's wonderfully vain, dissembling, and fashionable characters, she meets a potential suitor, Henry Tilney. But with her imagination fueled by melodramatic novels, Catherine turns a visit to his home, Northanger Abbey, into a hunt for dark family secrets. The result is a series of hilarious social gaffes and harsh awakenings that for all of Austen's youthful exuberance nevertheless conveys her mature vision of literature and life--and the consequences of mistaking one for the other.

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