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"
- 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War."
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Largely untouched by tourism Northeast India really offers the chance to experience travel without the tourists. Footprints 2nd edition Northeast India Handbook provides travellers with all the know-how for navigating their way around this lesser-known region. From the icy peaks of the Himalaya to the warm waters of the Andaman sea Footprints fully updated 2nd edition Northeast India will help travellers expect the unexpected from this little-known & relatively untouched region. Whether its discovering the temples of Orissa sipping tea in Darjeeling entering political debate in Kolkata marvelling at the bathers in Varanasi or simply delighting at the wonderful wildlife & beauty of Sikkim; this guidebook offers all this & more. Travellers will have all the know-how about making the most of their trip & really experience travel off the beaten track. Everything you need to know about Northeast Indias rich & diverse cultural heritage

Includes:: the exotic Andaman & Nicobar Islands Detailed coverage of the famous religious city of Varanasi Great mapping to help you navigate your way round

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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. ...

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
- serene & restful a perfect sanctuary for birds & animals & fell-walkers
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A Lakeland Fellranger walking guide by Mark Richards exploring 23 summits in the Northern Fells of the Lake District including a wide range of walks old & new between Keswick to the south & Caldbeck to the north. Among the summits featured are the massifs of Skiddaw & Blencathra & the peace of the more modest fells of High Pike Great Cockup & Carrock Fell further north. Author Mark Richards combines his passion for the Lake District & artistic flair with all the information the experienced walker needs to explore & enjoy the Western Fells. For each of the 23 hills covered this guide offers a dedicated chapter with full descriptions of a range of both undiscovered & time-honoured routes full-colour Harvey maps & clear elevation diagrams detailed summit panoramas & plenty of inspiring photographs. This guide is the seventh to be published in Cicerones 8-volume Lakeland Fellranger series which provides a comprehensive new guide to the fells of the English Lake District with a selection of new routes up more than 230 hills. ...

The Northern Fells include the rolling Caldbeck & Uldale Fells
- 'serene & restful a perfect sanctuary for birds & animals & fell-walkers
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From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict
- Catholic against Protestant & Republican against Unionist. Marc Mulholland explores the pivotal moments in Northern Irish history
- the rise of republicanism in the 1800s Home Rule & the civil rights movement the growth of Sinn Fein & the provisional IRA & of the opposition the DUP led by Dr. Ian Paisley. His detailed examination of the violent upheaval of the last century epitomized by the killing of 13 civilian demonstrators on Bloody Sunday culminates in the controversy surrounding the current ongoing peace process. Over 300 years on the question still remains: can two identities & national allegiances be accommodated in the same state without oppression rebellion or violence?

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