Northanger Abbey

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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)."