Northanger Abbey (Illustrated by Hugh Thomson) - Softcover

Austen, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1420954288 ISBN 13: 9781420954289

Publisher: Digireads.com Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

First published posthumously in 1817, “Northanger Abbey” was actually the first finished novel that Jane Austen wrote. It is the story of seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, one of ten children of a country clergyman, who imagines life as living in one of the Gothic novels with which she is excessively fond of reading. When she is invited by her wealthy neighbors, the Fullertons, to accompany them to the spa town of Bath she experiences her first taste of the fashionable upper class society of England. While there she meets the clever young gentleman, Henry Tilney, his sister Eleanor, and their father, the imposing General Tilney. The Tilneys invite Catherine to come stay with them at their estate, the titular Northanger Abbey. Catherine’s naïve over-active imagination quickly leads to embarrassment when she infers some sinister circumstances regarding the lack of emotion that General Tilney shows for the loss of his deceased wife. Eventually she realizes that real life is not at all like that of a Gothic novel. Noted for the insight it gives to Austen’s one opinions of the literature of her day, “Northanger Abbey” is both a satirical parody of the gothic romance novel and the story of a young girl’s maturation into womanhood. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and is illustrated by Hugh Thomson.

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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: Digireads.com Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1420954288
• ISBN 13: 9781420954289
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• Illustrator: Thomson Hugh