Northanger Abbey - (Vintage Classics) by Jane Austen (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Northanger Abbey </i>is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and 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. <p/>When Catherine is invited to Northanger Abbey, the grand though forbidding ancestral seat of her suitor, Henry Tilney, she finds herself embroiled in a <i>real </i>drama of misapprehension, mistreatment, and mortification, until common sense and humor--and a crucial clarification of Catherine's financial status--puts all to right. Written in 1798 but not published until after Austen's death in 1817, <i>Northanger Abbey </i>is characteristically clearheaded and strong, and infinitely subtle in its comedy.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Jane Austen is the Rosetta stone of literature." --<b>Anna Quindlen</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Jane Austen</b> (1775--1817) was born in Hampshire, England, where she spent most of her life. Though she received little recognition in her lifetime, she came to be regarded as one of the great masters of the English novel.
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