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The earliest of her six major novels, ""NorthangerAbbey remained unpublished until after Jane Austen's death. A deliciously witty satire of popular Gothic romances, it is perhaps Austen's lightest, most delightful excursion into a young woman's world. Catherine Morland, an unlikely heroine--unlikely because she is so ordinary--forsakes her English village for the pleasures and perils of Bath. There, among a circle of Austen's wonderfully vain, dissembling, and fashionable characters, she meets a potential suitor, Henry Tilney. But with her imagination fueled by melodramatic novels, Catherine turns a visit to his home, Northanger Abbey, into a hunt for dark family secrets. The result is a series of hilarious social gaffes and harsh awakenings that for all of Austen's youthful exuberance nevertheless conveys her mature vision of literature and life--and the consequences of mistaking one for the other.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Northanger Abbey
• Author: Jane Austen
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 233
• EAN: 9780553211979
• ISBN: 0553211978
• ID: 11006665
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Weight: 136 g
• Dimensions: 110 × 173 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. September 1985

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