OS Explorer is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer
- Active a tough versatile version of OS Explorer The OS Explorer Active range now

Includes:: a digital version of the paper map accessed through the OS smartphone app OS Maps


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' British Railways Past & Present' is a nationwide series of books featuring photographs of railway locations taken several decades ago & comparing them with the same scene today Such is the current pace of change on our railway system that even a few years can reduce a busy & vibrant railway scene to a wasteland or housing estate
- or conversely can bring electrification & up-to-the-minute technology to an outdated run-down route The contrasts are often dramatic while sometimes hardly anything has altered in 30 or 40 years Whatever the change the comparison of 'past' & 'present' will intrigue not only the railway enthusiast & historian but also anyone interested in our recent history This volume covers all the lines within & passing through the North & East of the County of Northamptonshire LNWR Blisworth-Peterborough (Nene Valley) line through Northampton Bridge Street to Elton LNWR Seaton-Peterborough line at King's Cliffe & Nassington Midland Main Line from Irchester through Wellingborough & Kettering to Desborough MR branch to Northampton St John's Street MR Rushden & Higham Ferrers branch MR Kettering-Harringworth line via Corby MR Kettering-St Ives branch as far as Raunds
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Harper Collins is proud to present its range of best-loved essential classics Northanger Abbey! These were thrilling words & wound up Catherine's feelings to the highest point of ecstasy' Considered the most light-hearted & satirical of Austen's novels Northanger Abbey tells the story of an unlikely young heroine Catherine Morland While staying in Bath Catherine meets Henry Tilney & his sister Eleanor who invite her to their family estate Northanger Abbey A fan of Gothic Romance novels naive Catherine is soon letting her imagination run wild in the atmospheric abbey fuelled by her friendship with the vivacious Isabella Thorpe It is only when the realities of life set in around her that Catherine's fantastical world is shattered A coming-of-age novel Austen expertly parodies the Gothic romance novels of her time & reveals much about her unsentimental view of love & marriage in the eighteenth century ...

Jane Austen in the hands of queen of crime Val Mc Dermid Get ready for a very different Northanger Abbey For Cat Morland life being home-schooled in Dorset is unendurably ordinary To cope she devours as many novels as possible especially anything supernatural But if Cat can tear her eyes away from the page she's in for a shock the very stuff of her dreams is about to come true An invite to the Edinburgh Festival from some wealthy neighbours throws her in the way of a mysterious young man Henry Tilney; a like-minded friend Isabella Thorpe; & her odious brother who threatens to ruin Cat's chances of adventure But this heroine is not so easily deterred especially when she's singled out by the Tilney family to stay with them at their imposing gothic castle Northanger Abbey Turrets & creaking doors there may be but in the depths of the Scottish Borders Cat is isolated from the outside world with no phone signal & no internet She's all alone in an ancient abbey alive with old secrets & a family who are not quite as they seem Is real life about to become more terrifying than the world of her imaginations PECIFICATIONS testing NULL ...

While enjoying a six weeks' stay in fashionable Bath the young & callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society Thanks to a new literary diet of the sensational & the macabre Catherine travels to Northanger Abbey fully expecting to become embroiled in a Gothic adventure of intrigue & suspense
- & once there soon begins to form the most gruesome & improbable theories about the exploits of its occupants An early work but published posthumously Northanger Abbey is a parody of the Gothic genre typified by the novels of Ann Radcliffe as well as a witty comedy of manners in the style of Jane Austen's later novels & ultimately an enchanting love story
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PD JAMESThe Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer & illustrator Leanne Shapton & introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers & Austen fans Alexander Mc Call Smith Lynne Truss Amanda Vickery Francesca Segal PD James & Andrew Motion ' Jane Austen is a genius & Northanger Abbey is hugely underrated' Martin Amis Catherine Morland is a young girl with a very active imagination Her naivety & love of sensational novels lead her to approach the fashionable social scene in Bath & her stay at nearby Northanger Abbey with preconceptions that have embarrassing & entertaining consequences ...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design During an eventful season at Bath young naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time She is delighted with her new acquaintances flirtatious Isabella who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance & horror & sophisticated Henry & Eleanor Tilney who invite her to their father's mysterious house Northanger Abbey There her imagination influenced by novels of sensation & intrigue Catherine imagines terrible crimes committed by General Tilney With its broad comedy & irrepressible heroine this is the most youthful & and optimistic of Jane Austen's works ...

Introduction & Notes by David Blair University of Kent Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered rural home to enter the busy sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1790s Austen observes with insight & humour the interaction between Catherine & the various characters whom she meets there & tracks her growing understanding of the world about her In this her first full-length novel Austen also fixes her sharp ironic gaze on other kinds of contemporary novel especially the Gothic school made famous by Ann Radcliffe Catherine's reading becomes intertwined with her social & romantic adventures adding to the uncertainties & embarrassments she must undergo before finding happiness ...

A witty exploration of the perils of mistaking fiction for reality Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is edited with an introduction & notes by Marylin Butler in Penguin Classics During an eventful season at Bath young naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time She is delighted with her new acquaintances rude boorish John Thorpe his flirtatious sister Isabella who shares Catherine's love of sensational novels & intrigue & sophisticated Eleanor & Henry Tilney who invite her to their father's mysterious house Northanger Abbey There her imagination influenced by Gothic romances such as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho Catherine imagines terrible crimes committed by General Tilney With its broad comedy & irrepressible impressionable heroine this is the most youthful & optimistic of Jane Austen's works The Penguin Classics edition of Northanger Abbey is based on the first edition of 1818 &

Includes:: a chronology & additional suggestions for further reading Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most famous women writers Austen began writing at a young age embarking on what is possibly her best-known work Pride & Prejudice at the age of 22 She was the author of Sense & Sensibility Pride & Prejudice Emma Persuasion Mansfield Park & Northanger Abbey If you enjoyed Northanger Abbey you may like Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho also available in Penguin Classics The most perfect artist among women the writer whose books are immortal (Virginia Woolf) These modern editions are to be strongly recommended for their scrupulous texts informative notes & helpful introductions (Brian Southam The Jane Austen Society)

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen' 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' During an eventful season at Bath young naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time She is delighted with her new acquaintances flirtatious Isabella who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance & horror & sophisticated Henry & Eleanor Tilney who invite her to their father's mysterious house Northanger Abbey There her imagination influenced by novels of sensation & intrigue Catherine imagines terrible crimes committed by General Tilney With its broad comedy & irrepressible heroine this is the most youthful & and optimistic of Jane Austen's works The Penguin English Library
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