"The Penguin English Library" - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War. With its broad comedy and irrepressible heroine, this is the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen's works. There, her imagination influenced by novels of sensation and intrigue, Catherine imagines terrible crimes committed by General Tilney. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and horror, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father's mysterious house, Northanger Abbey. During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time.
To parody the Gothic romance Jane Austen uses mainly two ways. She realizes that Gothic novels are fictional and unreal and therefore she progresses towards maturity and self-knowledge. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order. Completely wrapped up in thoughts of mysterious and frightening stories she has to learn that Northanger Abbey cannot fulfil her forced up expectations. 'To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive'. Read reviews and buy Northanger Abbey - (Penguin Clothbound Classics) by Jane Austen (Hardcover) at Target. This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen. Print Northanger Abbey (Penguin English Library) Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - Penguin Books Australia Play sample Published: 14 December 2011 ISBN: 9780141197715 Imprint: Format: Pages: RRP: 35.
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