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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A br&-new title focuses on North. & Cent. California; Coverage incl. the San Fran. Bay Area Wine Ctry Redwood Coast Sierras Lake Tahoe Santa Barbar; Takes readers off the path
- quiet lakes local swim. holes small towns etc; Features A Taste of North. California
- a full-colour chapt. highlights the region's locavore movement wine etc

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008. An epic chronicle of the last twenty years of British life from the Booker shortlisted & Granta Best of Young British novelist Philip Hensher. Beginning in 1974 & ending with the fading of Thatchers government in 1996 The Northern Clemency is Philip Henshers epic portrait of an entire era a novel concerned with the lives of ordinary people & history on the move. Set in Sheffield it charts the relationship between two families: Malcolm & Katherine Glover & their three children; & their neighbours the Sellers family newly arrived from London so that Bernie can pursue his job with the Electricity Board. The day the Sellers move in there is a crisis across the road: Malcolm Glover has left home convinced his wife is having an affair. The consequences of this rupture will spread throughout the lives of both couples & their children in particular ten-year-old Tim Glover who never quite recovers from a moment of his mothers public cruelty & the amused taunting of fifteen-year-old Sandra Sellers childhood crises that will come to a head twenty years later. In the background England is changing: from a manufacturing- & industrial-based economy into a new world of shops restaurants & service industries a shift particularly marked in the North with the miners strike of 1984 which has a dramatic impact on both families. Inspired by the expansive scale & webs of relationships of the great nineteenth-century Russian novels The Northern Clemency shows Philip Hensher to be one of our greatest chroniclers of English life. ...

The Northern Crusades inspired by the Popes call for a Holy War are less celebrated than those in the Middle East but they were also more successful: vast new territories became & remain Christian such as Finland Estonia & Prussia. Newly revised in the light of the recent developments in Baltic & Northern medieval research this authoritative overview provides a balanced & compelling account of a tumultuous era. ...

From the Mersey to the Solway & the Isle of Man in the West & the Humber to Berwick in the east up north is described to us in the authors own inimitable style. Industrial areas & the wilder landscapes are described with the same care & attention to detail. The result is a wealth of varied sea kayaking voyages to suit all tastes & abilities from easy sheltered paddles to testing offshore passages & everything in between. In addition to the usual important information needed to plan a trip recommended cafes pubs & chip shops are strategically located to provide sustenance at the end of your trip. Detailed tidal information also allows the book to serve as a valuable inshore pilot for water users such as anglers windsurfers & sailors. Jim started paddling in any old kayak he could muster during the school holidays. He has since paddled (and swum) many of the exciting white water rivers of England Scotland & Wales as well as many of those in the French Alps. A passion for sea kayaking combined with an interest in writing & photography brought about the first comprehensive guidebook to the Welsh coast for sea kayakers. His first publication (Welsh Sea Kayaking" co-authored by Andy Biggs) is a great success & has already gone to a reprint." ...

The Northern Fells include the rolling Caldbeck & Uldale Fells
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