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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

OS Explorer Map 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 Map
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Standing on the banks of the River Nene the thriving town of Northampton has come a long way from its industrial past in the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries when its wealth was built on the dominant boot & shoe industry. Since then small independent family-run retailers have given way to large national chain stores & shopping centres such as the Grosvenor & modern shops cafes & bars fill the lively town centre. Yet despite these changes Northampton still retains many of its original buildings & monuments including the Guildhall the Sessions House Becket's Well & Bradlaugh's Monument. In Northampton Then & Now Philip Sawford compares archive images of the Northampton of the past with full-colour modern photographs of the town today exploring just how much has changed as well as finding unexpected similarities. ...

At last we produce the books in the series closest to our home base! Part 1 covers * Great Western Railway at Aynho & Kings Sutton * Great Central Railway from Brackley to Charwelton via Woodford Halse * LNWR Banbury branch through Brackley * The Stratford-upon-Avon & Midland Junction cross-country route from Byfield to Ravenstone Wood Junction * West Coast Main Line from Roade to Kilsby Tunnel andthe Daventry branch * Northampton loop from Roade to Kilsby & Crick * LNWR Northampton-Market Harborough line * LNWR Rugby-Market Harborough line at Yelvertoft & Stanford Park ...

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. ...

. ..in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife she had scarcely sinned against his character or magnified his cruelty. Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland young ingenuous & mettlesome & an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess & dark overstatement feed her imagination as tyrannical fathers & diabolical villains work their evil on forlorn heroines in isolated settings. What could be more remote from the uneventful securities of life in the midland counties of England? Yet as Austen brilliantly contrasts fiction with reality ordinary life takes a more sinister turn & edginess & circumspection are reaffirmed alongside comedy & literary burlesque. Also including Austens other short fictions Lady Susan The Watsons & Sanditon this valuable new edition examines the ambitious & innovative works with which she inaugurated as well as closed her career. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

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 Catherines love of Gothic romance & horror & sophisticated Henry & Eleanor Tilney who invite her to their fathers 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 Austens works. ...

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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This is 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 & optimistic of Jane Austen's works. " The Penguin English Library"
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