Northanger Abbey / Jane Austen.
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TextSeries: Oneworld classicsPublication details: Richmond, Surrey : Oneworld Classics, 2010Description: 223 p. : ill., ports. ; 20 cmISBN: 9781847491350Subject(s): Young women -- England -- Fiction | Social classes -- Fiction | Courtship -- Fiction | England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Love stories. Summary: Classic fiction. While enjoying a six weeks' stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. Thanks to a new literary diet of the sensational and the macabre, Catherine travels to Northanger Abbey fully expecting to become embroiled in a Gothic adventure of intrigue and suspense and, once there, soon begins to form the most gruesome and improbable theories about the exploits of its occupants. An early work, but published posthumously, "Northanger Abbey" is a satire on the Gothic mode typified by the novels of Ann Radcliffe, as well as a witty comedy of manners in the style of Jane Austen's later novels and, ultimately, an enchanting love story.
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First published in 1817.
Classic fiction. While enjoying a six weeks' stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. Thanks to a new literary diet of the sensational and the macabre, Catherine travels to Northanger Abbey fully expecting to become embroiled in a Gothic adventure of intrigue and suspense and, once there, soon begins to form the most gruesome and improbable theories about the exploits of its occupants. An early work, but published posthumously, "Northanger Abbey" is a satire on the Gothic mode typified by the novels of Ann Radcliffe, as well as a witty comedy of manners in the style of Jane Austen's later novels and, ultimately, an enchanting love story.
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