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Northanger Abbey

Austen, JaneLaurens, Stephanie(Afterword by)Drabble, Margaret(Introduction by)
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Jane Austen's brilliant satire of the gothic novel.The most sprightly and satirical of Austen's novels, Northanger Abbey was written when the author was herself in her early twenties, and takes for its heroine seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, a spirited young woman preoccupied with the pleasures of dressing, dancing, and reading sensational novels.

But when she visits Northanger Abbey, the ancestral home of handsome Henry Tilney, Catherine's taste in books comes back to haunt her.

The rambling house full of locked doors and the family's mysterious history give rise to delightfully dreadful suspicions, and finally only Catherine's sweet nature and good humor triumph over her susceptibility.

A sly commentary on the power of literature as well as a cautionary tale about the perils of navete, Northanger Abbey is a fresh and funny tale of one young woman receiving, as Margaret Drabble reveals in her illuminating introduction, "intensive instruction in the ways of the world."With an Introduction by Margaret Drabbleand an Afterword by Stephanie LaurensFrom the Paperback edition.

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Penguin Publishing Group
1101664134 / 9781101664131
eBook (EPUB)
823.7
05/02/2008
English
256 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Quiz No: 200581, Points 16.00, Book Level 10.80,
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