Northanger Abbey (Classics Read by Celebrities Series) (CD-Audio)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Northanger Abbey Jane Austen parodies the romantic folly of men and women in pursuit of love, marriage, and money through the humorous adventures of young Catherine on holiday in Bath.
Full description- Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
- Published: 01 February 2008
- Format: CD-Audio
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics
- ISBN 13: 9781433209550 ISBN 10: 1433209551
- Sales rank: 1,148,765
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Full description for Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey is the earliest of Jane Austen's great comedies of female enlightenment and combines literary burlesque - making fun of the excesses of the Gothic novel - with larger moral, philosophical, and social issues: the folly of letting literature get in the way of life, the inexcusability of not thinking for oneself, and the painful difficulties (especially for women) involved in growing up. Lady Susan and The Watsons are early compositions that reflect many of the qualities of Northanger Abbey. The first is an epistolary novel centring on the intrigues of the villainous Lady Susan; the second is an unfinished example of Jane Austen's most characteristic form - a story where the heroine is outstanding for her sense and goodness, virtues notably lacking in the other characters, who are here part of an altogether bleaker vision. Sanditon, too, is tragically incomplete, and it signals the achievement of a new depth and breadth of comic insight on the part of its author.
