Pride & prejudice

Northanger Abbey

567 pages

English language

Published Aug. 5, 2008 by Borders Classics.

ISBN:
978-1-58726-560-0
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OCLC Number:
460563385

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Pride & Prejudice: When Elizabeth Bennet first meets bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever.

Northanger Abbey: Catherine Morland, a remarkably innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage, spends a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. She meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, a great reader of Gothic thrillers, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with terrible suspicions.

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a delightful glimpse into an era long gone...

short plot description: centre of the book is the family Bennet, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five unmarried daughters. The setting is early 19th century England and we follow the chain of events through the eyes of Elizatbeth Bennet (the second eldest daughter)which is started when a young, handsome, rich and unmarried young man moves into the neighbourhood.......

A wonderful read, a light, funny and romantic comedy which even after almost 200 years still has some remarkable insights into the relationship between men and women and the pressures of society. Some parts reminded me of the "screwball comedy" movies of the 1930s.

Minor point: language and grammar felt strange in places which is only to be expected in a novel that old.

My advice: for everyone who likes romantic novels

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Subjects

  • Social classes
  • Fiction
  • Young women
  • Courtship
  • Sisters
  • Horror tales
  • Appreciation
  • Books and reading
  • Social life and customs
  • Manners and customs

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