Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen - Books - Nook Press - 9781681014265 - July 20, 2016
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Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey is fundamentally a parody of Gothic fiction. Austen turns the conventions of eighteenth-century novels on their head, by making her heroine a plain and undistinguished girl from a middle-class family, allowing the heroine to fall in love with the hero before he has a serious thought of her, and exposing the heroine's romantic fears and curiosities as groundless. Austen biographer Claire Tomalin speculates that Austen may have begun this book, which is more explicitly comic than her other works and contains many literary allusions that her parents and siblings would have enjoyed, as a family entertainment-a piece of lighthearted parody to be read aloud by the fireside.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released July 20, 2016
ISBN13 9781681014265
Publishers Nook Press
Pages 162
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 9 mm   ·   244 g
Language English  

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