MixedI think Northank Abby for me is yeah, it's my least favorite. , Jane Austin. I feel like it is just less interesting than her other books.
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Northanger Abbey (1818)
Others: Mostly positive Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of the initiation into life of its naïve but sweetly appealing heroine, Catherine Morland, a willing victim of the contemporary craze for Gothic literature who is determined to see herself as the heroine of a dark and thrilling romance. When Catherine is invited to Northanger Abbey, the grand though forbidding ancestral seat of her suitor, Henry Tilney, she finds herself embroiled in a real drama of misapprehension, mistreatment, and mortification, until common sense and humor—and a crucial clarification of Catherine’s financial status—puts all to right. Written in 1798 but not published until after Austen’s death in 1817, Northanger Abbey is characteristically clearheaded and strong, and infinitely subtle in its comedy.
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- 9781020520037
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- 254 pages
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Loved itwhich is one of my all-time favorite books by Jane Austin, but I feel like is one of the most underhyped of all of her works, but it's just so fun and I love it
Loved itNorth anger Abby which is another one of my favorit was published alongside persuasion together in one volume I believe when it was first published
Loved itthis was my first official all the way through Jane Austin read and I'm really glad that I started with this one ... I just really loved this book
Loved itNorth anger Abbey which is a parody of the gothic genre that basically follows a Gothic fan girl as she kind of makes her own life more complicated for herself by thinking everything's going to be like it is in her books and it's silly and humorous and fun I love both of them
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Loved itNorthanger Abbey has one of the best villains ever I love how Jane Austen could write a character that you just absolutely despise with every piece of your being John Thorpe in this book is like the original [ __ ] boy he's awful and I think it's such a talent to be able to make the reader feel so strongly so that's why my jaw is on the floor.
Not a fanfor me northanger rabbi has always been my least favorite jane austen novel
Mixedpersuasion and northanger abbey i thought were okay completely fine enjoyed reading them but they didn't didn't really grab me
Loved itthen I read it in my MA and really enjoyed it and got a lot from it so I wanted to pick this because I think it's a sign that rereading books is often really important
Loved itI think this is my favorite book of Jane Austen's even though it's hard to choose but I like this because it's Victorian and it is macabre we are set in a castle and everything is very mysterious
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Loved itBut I just thought it was so fun and witty and I just really appreciate her writing.