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  • Still good despite its flaws

  • I consider this the weakest of Austen's books. The heroine Catherine got on my nerves because she allowed herself to be manipulated. She was very naive, so I could not sympathize or relate to her. It's well written, but I find the characters unlikeable and the plot less than gripping. So why did I g ... Continue

    I consider this the weakest of Austen's books. The heroine Catherine got on my nerves because she allowed herself to be manipulated. She was very naive, so I could not sympathize or relate to her. It's well written, but I find the characters unlikeable and the plot less than gripping. So why did I give it 3 stars? Because Jane Austen creates a cast of characters with serious flaws (I absolutely loathed the Thorpes). She perfectly captured the superficial society of Bath and I have to applaud that!

    

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  • All Austen is five star work. I'm only rating in comparison to how I rank them in relation to each other.

    

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First accepted by a publisher in 1803, Northanger Abbey was eventually published posthumously in 1818. In it Austen weaves a romance full of suspense and comedy around the heroine Catherine Morland’s first foray into society. The style of the novel is a unique hybrid; along the way Austen parodies the eighteenth-century novel of manners, the Gothic novel, and even the educational treatises of the time.

The second Broadview edition includes a revised introduction, notes, bibliography, and expanded appendices of background contextual materials.

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