Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of the initiation into life of its naïve but sweetly appealing heroine, …
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Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of the initiation into life of its naïve but sweetly appealing heroine, Catherine Morland, a willing victim of the contemporary craze for Gothic literature who is determined to see herself as the heroine of a dark and thrilling romance.
When Catherine is invited to Northanger Abbey, the grand though forbidding ancestral seat of her suitor, Henry Tilney, she finds herself embroiled in a real drama of misapprehension, mistreatment, and mortification, until common sense and humor—and a crucial clarification of Catherine’s financial status—puts all to right. Written in 1798 but not published until after Austen’s death in 1817, Northanger Abbey is characteristically clearheaded and strong, and infinitely subtle in its comedy.
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Northanger Abbey
Paperback, 288 pages
English language
Published March 2, 2005 by Barnes & Noble Classics.
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- 978-1-59308-264-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 60495815
Northanger Abbey
Paperback, 104 pages
Published Jan. 16, 2017 by Value Classic Reprints.
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- 978-1-945644-85-6Copied ISBN!
Northanger Abbey
Paperback, 240 pages
Published Jan. 1, 1968 by Minster, Lancer Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-330-02192-0Copied ISBN!
Northanger Abbey
Hardcover, 104 pages
Published Jan. 16, 2017 by Chump Change.
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- 978-1-945644-84-9Copied ISBN!
Northanger Abbey
320 pages
English language
Published Nov. 9, 2011 by Penguin Books, Limited.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-119771-5Copied ISBN!
Northanger Abbey
mass market paperback
Published Oct. 1, 1965 by Signet Classics.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-451-51113-3Copied ISBN!
Northanger Abbey
248 pages
English language
Published Nov. 9, 2013 by Penguin Books, Limited.
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- 978-0-14-138942-4Copied ISBN!
Northanger Abbey
304 pages
English language
Published Nov. 9, 2014 by Penguin Random House.
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- 978-0-09-958929-7Copied ISBN!
Northanger Abbey
236 pages
English language
Published Nov. 9, 2010 by Penguin Books, Limited.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-119485-1Copied ISBN!
Northanger Abbey
English language
Published Nov. 9, 2020 by Lulu Press, Inc..
- ISBN:
- 978-1-6780-0416-3Copied ISBN!
Northanger Abbey
English language
Published Nov. 9, 2003 by Wildside Press, LLC.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-59224-706-6Copied ISBN!
Northanger Abbey
English language
Published Nov. 9, 2014 by HarperCollins Publishers Limited.
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- 978-0-00-751796-1Copied ISBN!
Northanger Abbey
English language
Published Nov. 9, 2011 by HarperCollins Publishers Limited.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-00-742455-9Copied ISBN!
Northanger Abbey
English language
Published Nov. 9, 2020 by Sweet Cherry Publishing.
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- 978-1-78226-756-0Copied ISBN!
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