Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey

by Stephanie Laurens and Jane Austen
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 05/02/2008

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Jane Austen's brilliant satire of the gothic novel.


“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”


The most sprightly and satirical of Austen’s novels, Northanger Abbey was written when the author was herself in her early twenties, and takes for its heroine seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, a spirited young woman preoccupied with the pleasures of dressing, dancing, and reading sensational novels.


When she visits Northanger Abbey, the ancestral home of handsome Henry Tilney, Catherine’s taste in books comes back to haunt her. The rambling house, full of locked doors, and the family’s mysterious history give rise to delightfully dreadful suspicions, and finally only Catherine’s sweet nature and good humor triumph over her susceptibility.


A sly commentary on the power of literature as well as a cautionary tale about the perils of naïveté, Northanger Abbey is a fresh and funny tale of one young woman receiving, as Margaret Drabble reveals in her illuminating introduction, “intensive instruction in the ways of the world.”


With an Introduction by Margaret Drabble

and an Afterword by Stephanie Laurens

ISBN:
9781101664131
9781101664131
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
05-02-2008
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Stephanie Laurens

New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens began writing as an escape from the dry world of professional science, a hobby that quickly became a career.

Her novels set in Regency England have captivated readers around the globe, making her one of the romance world's most beloved and popular authors.

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