| Northanger Abbey Contributor(s): Austen, Jane (Author), Drabble, Margaret (Introduction by), Laurens, Stephanie (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 0451530845 ISBN-13: 9780451530844 Publisher: Signet Book OUR PRICE: $7.16 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: March 2008 Annotation: A sly commentary on the power of literature and a warning for women about being too innocent, Austens classic novel of a young woman receiving intensive instruction in the ways of the world features a new Afterword and a striking new package. Revised reissue. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Romance - Historical - Regency |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2008273856 |
| Lexile Measure: 910 |
| Series: Signet Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 4.86" W x 6.94" (0.28 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Jane Austen's brilliant satire of the gothic novel. The most sprightly and satirical of Austen's novels, Northanger Abbey was written when the author was herself in her early twenties, and takes for its heroine seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, a spirited young woman preoccupied with the pleasures of dressing, dancing, and reading sensational novels. But when she visits Northanger Abbey, the ancestral home of handsome Henry Tilney, Catherine's taste in books comes back to haunt her. The rambling house full of locked doors and the family's mysterious history give rise to delightfully dreadful suspicions, and finally only Catherine's sweet nature and good humor triumph over her susceptibility. A sly commentary on the power of literature as well as a cautionary tale about the perils of na vet , Northanger Abbey is a fresh and funny tale of one young woman receiving, as Margaret Drabble reveals in her illuminating introduction, intensive instruction in the ways of the world. With an Introduction by Margaret Drabble and an Afterword by Stephanie Laurens |