Northanger Abbey
An Apple Books Classic edition.
Jane Austen’s playful send-up of gothic romance doubles as a coming-of-age story for one of her most endearing heroines. Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, a clergyman’s daughter with an overactive imagination, leaves her quiet country life for the glittering social whirl of Bath. There she discovers friendship, flirtation, and a new world that seems to be shaped as much by her beloved novels as by manners. Catherine is invited to the Tilney family’s grand estate, and her love of spooky fiction leads her to suspect dark secrets behind its doors, only to find that real life offers subtler mysteries.
Northanger Abbey is one of Austen’s most enjoyable novels—a bright, funny story full of genuine heart.
- Pages
- 260
- First published
- 1803
- Language
- English
- Edition
- Ebook
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Finished August 1, 2005
Favorite Austen. A great satire to Gothic Romance. "Northanger Abbey" does make a mockery of Gothic Romance. But Jane Austen shows that you can be passionate towards fiction literature without making fiction reality. The heroine, Catherine, learns that not everything in reality has a Gothic fiction story. That fiction is just that. Catherine Morland (17) goes to Bath with friends. She then meets Henry Tilney, whom invites her to his family's home - Northanger Abbey. Catherine expected a Gothic Abbey to match with the novels she reads (mainly Ann Radcliffe the creator of Gothic Romance). The comedy is that the Abbey, Henry and the Tilney's are just the opposite. They are wealthy "English Christians." There are other subtext to parody of social marriages and manners. Jane Austen's books all have this comedic point if view. I would recommend this novel.
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