| Northanger Abbey Contributor(s): Austen, Jane (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486414124 ISBN-13: 9780486414126 Publisher: Dover Publications
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 2000 Annotation: In this spirited, early 19th-century comedy of manners, Catherine Morland meets and falls in love with handsome Henry Tilney while on holiday in Bath. Thinking she is wealthy, his father invites her to be a guest of the family's country estate. Click for more in this series: Dover Thrift Editions |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Satire |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00056997 |
| Age Level: 11-UP |
| Grade Level: 6-UP |
| Lexile Measure: 910(Not Available) |
| Series: Dover Thrift Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.18" W x 8.32" L (0.31 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this spirited comedy of manners Catherine Morland, a plain, unspoiled small-town girl on holiday in Bath, meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, a handsome young clergyman. Henry's father, believing Catherine to be wealthy, invites her to be a guest at Northanger Abby, the family's country estate. Catherine, who has read too many Gothic romances and who is possessed of too vivid an imagination, views the abbey as a house of nightmarish horror -- an aspect of the book that gleefully parodies the fantastic Gothic romances by Ann Radcliffe and other popular writers of the period. An amusing assortment of misunderstandings and plot twists result in the satisfying romantic conclusion characteristic of the author's works. First written in 1789-99, when Austen was in her early twenties, this novel, like Persuasion, did not see publication till 1818, in the winter after the author's death. Distinguished by its satirical wit, brilliant comedy, and complex but subtle views of human nature and morality, the book also presents a fine background picture of middle-class life in nineteenth-century England, with particularly good scenes in Bath, the fashionable watering place to which Austen's father, a clergyman himself, had retired. Northanger Abbey is a must-read for all Austen fans and students of English literature. |
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