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Northanger Abbey

Introduction by Claudia Johnson

By Jane Austen

By Jane Austen

By Jane Austen
Introduction by Robert Kiely

By Jane Austen
Introduction by Robert Kiely

By Jane Austen

By Jane Austen

By Jane Austen
Introduction by Claudia Johnson

By Jane Austen
Introduction by Claudia Johnson

By Jane Austen

By Jane Austen

By Jane Austen

By Jane Austen

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Sep 04, 2007 | ISBN 9780307386830

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Jan 08, 2002 | ISBN 9780375759178

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Sep 01, 1985 | ISBN 9780553211979

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Nov 03, 1992 | ISBN 9780679417156

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Jul 31, 2007 | ISBN 9780553903966

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Nov 01, 2000 | ISBN 9780679641100

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    About Northanger Abbey

    Northanger Abbey is the story of naïve but sweetly appealing Catherine Morland, a willing victim of the 19th-century craze for Gothic literature who is determined to see herself as the heroine of a dark and thrilling romance.

    Northanger Abbey 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.

    When Catherine 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—puts all to right. 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.

    About Northanger Abbey

    Jane Austen’s first novel, Northanger Abbey—published posthumously in 1818—tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen’s fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey, Catherine eventually triumphs, blossoming into a discerning woman who learns truths about love, life, and the heady power of literature. The satirical Northanger Abbey pokes fun at the gothic novel while earnestly emphasizing caution to the female sex.

    This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the first edition of 1818.

    About Northanger Abbey

    The earliest of her six major novels, NorthangerAbbey remained unpublished until after Jane Austen’s death. 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.

    About Northanger Abbey

    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.

    About Northanger Abbey

    Jane Austen’s first novel, Northanger Abbey—published posthumously in 1818—tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen’s fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey, Catherine eventually triumphs, blossoming into a discerning woman who learns truths about love, life, and the heady power of literature. The satirical Northanger Abbey pokes fun at the gothic novel while earnestly emphasizing caution to the female sex.

    This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the first edition of 1818.

    About Northanger Abbey

    Although Northanger Abbey was not published until after Jane Austen’s death in 1817, it was one of her first novels. Northanger Abbey is, in part, Austen’s response to Gothic novels, like Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho, which were enjoying tremendous popularity in the late seventeeth and early eighteenth centuries, and to their devoted readers. It is a fine demonstration of the young novelist’s powers of social observation and pristine style, which are the hallmarks of her work.

    In opposition to the Gothic novelists’ portentous prose and unlikely heroines, she presents a charmingly believable Catherine Morland. In one of Austen’s delightful satirical twists, Catherine, recently introduced into society, is a voracious reader of Gothic stories. When she is invited to stay with the Tilneys in their seemingly foreboding abbey, she fears that it is the kind of terrible place described in the novels she devours.

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    About Jane Austen

    Though the domain of Jane Austen’s novels was as circumscribed as her life, her caustic wit and keen observation made her the equal of the greatest novelists in any language. Born the seventh child of the rector of Steventon, Hampshire, on… More about Jane Austen

    About Jane Austen

    Though the domain of Jane Austen’s novels was as circumscribed as her life, her caustic wit and keen observation made her the equal of the greatest novelists in any language. Born the seventh child of the rector of Steventon, Hampshire, on… More about Jane Austen

    About Jane Austen

    Though the domain of Jane Austen’s novels was as circumscribed as her life, her caustic wit and keen observation made her the equal of the greatest novelists in any language. Born the seventh child of the rector of Steventon, Hampshire, on… More about Jane Austen

    About Jane Austen

    Though the domain of Jane Austen’s novels was as circumscribed as her life, her caustic wit and keen observation made her the equal of the greatest novelists in any language. Born the seventh child of the rector of Steventon, Hampshire, on… More about Jane Austen

    About Jane Austen

    Though the domain of Jane Austen’s novels was as circumscribed as her life, her caustic wit and keen observation made her the equal of the greatest novelists in any language. Born the seventh child of the rector of Steventon, Hampshire, on… More about Jane Austen

    About Jane Austen

    Though the domain of Jane Austen’s novels was as circumscribed as her life, her caustic wit and keen observation made her the equal of the greatest novelists in any language. Born the seventh child of the rector of Steventon, Hampshire, on… More about Jane Austen

    Product Details

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $8.00
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 04, 2007 | 256 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307386830

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $8.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Jan 08, 2002 | 256 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375759178

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Mass Market Paperback | $5.95
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Sep 01, 1985 | 240 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553211979

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $28.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Nov 03, 1992 | 280 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780679417156

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $1.99
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Jul 31, 2007 | 240 Pages | ISBN 9780553903966

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $3.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Nov 01, 2000 | 192 Pages | ISBN 9780679641100

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