Northanger Abbey - The Library of the Uncommons

English language

Published Nov. 21, 1994

ISBN:: 978-1-85326-043-8

(2 reviews)

Northanger Abbey is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic novels written by Jane Austen. Austen was also influenced by Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote (1752). Northanger Abbey was completed in 1803, the first of Austen's novels completed in full, but was published posthumously in 1817 with Persuasion. The story concerns Catherine Morland, the naïve young protagonist, and her journey to a better understanding of herself and of the world around her. How Catherine views the world has been distorted by her fondness for Gothic novels and an active imagination.

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Review of 'Northanger Abbey' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I enjoyed this silly book, and I think it has spared me for some time from any motivation I might have had to read Mrs. Radcliffe or her contemporary gothic novelists. Let's not go to Northanger; 'tis a silly place.
I'm about to read Val McDermid's update on this classic, and expect I will enjoy comparing the way she'll do it with the ways I imagined Catherine and Isabella as 21st century girls.

Ulf Hundeiker

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Jun 14