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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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Illustrated. The last of Jane Austen's works to be published (in 1817), the novel is modeled after the day's popular romances and Gothic thrillers, which it then proceeds to ridicule. The heroine is Catherine Morland, who encounters upper-crust society at Bath, falls in love, and becomes targeted by misinformed fortune-seekers. After moving to Northanger Abbey, her imagination goes to work and dreams up mysteries that lead to various social disasters.

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