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Northanger Abbey
- Author
- Jane Austen
- Narrator
- Wanda McCaddon
- Publisher
- Craig Black
- Publish Date
- 31 December 2007
- Run Time
- 7 hours 35 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Classic fiction
What to expect
Jane Austen's first major novel, a parody of the popular literature of the time, is an ironic tale of the romantic folly of men and women in pursuit of love, marriage, and money. The humorous adventures of young Catherine as she encounters "the difficulties and dangers of a six weeks' residence in Bath" lead to some of Austen's most brilliant social satire. There is Catherine's hilarious liaison with a paragon of bad manners and boastfulness, her disastrous friendship with an unforgettably crass coquette, and a whirl of cotillion dances with their timeless mortifications. A visit to ancient Northanger Abbey, the ancestral home of the novel's handsome hero, excites the irrepressible Catherine's hopes of romance amid gothic horrors. But what awaits her there is a drama of a different kind. This novel is the most youthfully exuberant and broadly comic of Jane Austen's works.
Critics Review
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“About an imaginative young woman who reads too many Gothic novels, the story is Austen’s most lighthearted.”
Boston Globe
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“Northanger Abbey, her most youthful and in many ways her most brillant novel…at times dares us to pay close attention to the artistic positions and processes her other novels tend to relegate to the background.”
Claudia L. Johnson, Murray Professor of English Literature at Princeton University
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“[Austen] uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of ‘horrid’ novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society…In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen’s novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, nineteenth-century British style.”
Amazon.com, editorial review
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“Combines a satire on conventional novels of polite society with one on gothic tales of terror.”
Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
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Details
- Author
- Jane Austen
- Narrator
- Wanda McCaddon
- Duration
- 7 hours 35 minutes
- Release Date
- 31 December 2007
- ISBN
- 9781481557979
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Craig Black
- Genre
- Classic fiction
Synopsis
Jane Austen's first major novel, a parody of the popular literature of the time, is an ironic tale of the romantic folly of men and women in pursuit of love, marriage, and money. The humorous adventures of young Catherine as she encounters "the difficulties and dangers of a six weeks' residence in Bath" lead to some of Austen's most brilliant social satire. There is Catherine's hilarious liaison with a paragon of bad manners and boastfulness, her disastrous friendship with an unforgettably crass coquette, and a whirl of cotillion dances with their timeless mortifications. A visit to ancient Northanger Abbey, the ancestral home of the novel's handsome hero, excites the irrepressible Catherine's hopes of romance amid gothic horrors. But what awaits her there is a drama of a different kind. This novel is the most youthfully exuberant and broadly comic of Jane Austen's works.
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