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Northanger Abbey

By Jane Austen, Anne Henry Ehrenpreis (Preface)

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| Paperback | 9780140430745

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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 byContinue

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"Dear Miss Morland, consider the dreadful nature of the suspicions you have entertained. What have you been judging from? Remember the country and the age in which we live. Remember that we are English, that we are Christians. Consult your own understanding, your own sense of the probable, your own ... (continue)

"Dear Miss Morland, consider the dreadful nature of the suspicions you have entertained. What have you been judging from? Remember the country and the age in which we live. Remember that we are English, that we are Christians. Consult your own understanding, your own sense of the probable, your own observation of what is passing around you. Does our education prepare us for such atrocities? Do our laws connive at them? Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open? Dearest Miss Morland, what ideas have you been admitting?"

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sepia officinalis said on Sep 13, 2011 | Add your feedback

Baseball spoken here

The highlight of the novel, for me, was the mention of baseball in the first chapter! I didn't know the game existed in England in Austen's time, let alone imagine one of her heroines playing it.
I did some searching, and apparently this may be the first written mention of the game ever.
http://www ... (continue)

The highlight of the novel, for me, was the mention of baseball in the first chapter! I didn't know the game existed in England in Austen's time, let alone imagine one of her heroines playing it.
I did some searching, and apparently this may be the first written mention of the game ever.
http://www.aolnews.com/2008/11/06/apparently-jane-auste…
PS: I picked a random edition of the novel, actually I downloaded the free audiobook from the librivox.org catalogue.

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ary29 said on Nov 19, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

A delightful satire on gothic romance, full of of wit and love for the genre - for only a connoisseur would know its tropes, merits and flaws so well as to construct such a tale. I know some will not agree, but I would venture to say that Northanger Abbey did for gothic what The Hitchhiker's Guide t ... (continue)

A delightful satire on gothic romance, full of of wit and love for the genre - for only a connoisseur would know its tropes, merits and flaws so well as to construct such a tale. I know some will not agree, but I would venture to say that Northanger Abbey did for gothic what The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy did for sci-fi, or Young Frankenstein for the horror/Hammer movie.

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Ian Atrus said on Aug 26, 2011 | Add your feedback

:)

The first novel by Jane Austen I read! I loved it! :)

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Elisa said on Jul 29, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

"From politics, it was an easy step to silence."
Tsk tsk, I would have expected more from Austen...

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La Ganda said on Apr 5, 2011 about the School & Library Binding edition | Add your feedback

'Northanger Abbey' is the story of the young and naive Catherine Morland and her venture into the complexities of adult social life. It takes a tongue-in-cheek view of a girl's ideas of romance and adventure formed by reading Gothic novels, and how, with a series of very entertaining episodes that r ... (continue)

'Northanger Abbey' is the story of the young and naive Catherine Morland and her venture into the complexities of adult social life. It takes a tongue-in-cheek view of a girl's ideas of romance and adventure formed by reading Gothic novels, and how, with a series of very entertaining episodes that result in anti-climaxes, Catherine realises that real life is different from fiction. Not my favourite Jane Austen's book, but quite entertaining anyway.

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Lunarossa said on Sep 3, 2009 | Add your feedback