Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen (The Penguin English Library) - Softcover

Austen, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141389427 ISBN 13: 9780141389424

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2012

Synopsis

The Penguin English Library Edition of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

'To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive'

During an eventful season at Bath, young, naïve Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and horror, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father's mysterious house, Northanger Abbey. There, her imagination influenced by novels of sensation and intrigue, Catherine imagines terrible crimes committed by General Tilney. With its broad comedy and irrepressible heroine, this is the most youthful and and optimistic of Jane Austen's works.

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Review:

'Benedict and Le Faye ... provide in their respective volumes a generous, helpful, and historically informed introduction to the work and its reception; a set of informative, judicious explanatory notes; and a meticulously prepared and visually well presented text. ... The Northanger Abbey edition is excellent ... offers a magnificent summary ...' Devoney Looser, University of Missouri

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About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0141389427
• ISBN 13: 9780141389424
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256