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Northanger Abbey: Introduction by Claudia Johnson

Northanger Abbey: Introduction by Claudia Johnson

Johnson, Claudia
Austen, Jane

Hardcover

Series: Everyman's Library Classics

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 067941715X
ISBN13: 9780679417156
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Nov 3 1992
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.14
Language: English

Northanger Abbey is a perfectly aimed literary parody that is also a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of the initiation into life of its naïve but sweetly appealing heroine, Catherine Morland, a willing victim of the contemporary craze for Gothic literature who is determined to see herself as the heroine of a dark and thrilling romance. When she is invited to Northanger Abbey, the grand though forbidding ancestral seat of her suitor, Henry Tilney, she finds herself embroiled in a real drama of misapprehension, mistreatment, and mortification, until common sense and humor-and a crucial clarification of Catherine's financial status-resolve her problems and win her the approval of Henry's formidable father.

Written in 1798 but not published until after Austen's death in 1817, Northanger Abbey is characteristically clearheaded and strong, and infinitely subtle in its comedy.

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