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Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. --Alix Wilber
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. Unabridged. In this spirited comedy of manners Catherine Morland a plain unspoiled smalltown girl on holiday in Bath meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney a handsome young clergyman Henrys father believing Catherine to be wealthy invites her to be a guest at Northanger Abby the familys 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 authors worksFirst written in 178999 when Austen was in her early twenties this novel like Persuasion did not see publication till 1818 in the winter after the authors 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 middleclass life in nineteenthcentury England with particularly good scenes in Bath the fashionable watering place to which Austens father a clergyman himself had retired Northanger Abbey is a mustread for all Austen fans and students of English literature. Seller Inventory # DADAX0486414124
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