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Signet Classic
JANE AUSTEN
NORTHANGER ABBEY -
Written during the same period as Pn'iie cjMii Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, this novel represents Jane Austen's genius at its freshest and most enchanting. Its heroine is Catherine Morland, the mistakenly invited guest at an isolated, and quite mysterious, country manor There the charming young
husband-seeker falls in love v/ith the young man of the house—but quickly comes to suspect him of lurid
deeds worthy of her favorite Gothic novels. Before Catherine's difficulties are resolved, we witness the
romantic chase in all its prescribed ritual, and its prime motivations: ambition, pleasure, greed, power, self-interest. . love. With Northanger Abbey Jane Austen creates a superb blending of social comedy and
barbed literary satire, shaped by a vision merciless toward human folly, yet acutely sensitive to every form of cruelty. Her book stands as the product of an art at once delicate and strong, seemingly
fragile but...
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Fülszöveg
Signet Classic
JANE AUSTEN
NORTHANGER ABBEY -
Written during the same period as Pn'iie cjMii Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, this novel represents Jane Austen's genius at its freshest and most enchanting. Its heroine is Catherine Morland, the mistakenly invited guest at an isolated, and quite mysterious, country manor There the charming young
husband-seeker falls in love v/ith the young man of the house—but quickly comes to suspect him of lurid
deeds worthy of her favorite Gothic novels. Before Catherine's difficulties are resolved, we witness the
romantic chase in all its prescribed ritual, and its prime motivations: ambition, pleasure, greed, power, self-interest. . love. With Northanger Abbey Jane Austen creates a superb blending of social comedy and
barbed literary satire, shaped by a vision merciless toward human folly, yet acutely sensitive to every form of cruelty. Her book stands as the product of an art at once delicate and strong, seemingly
fragile but imperishable—an art which has made Jane Austen, as Elizabeth Hardwick declares,". one of
the glories of English literature." In the words of E R. Leavis, "Jane Austen is one of the truly great writers, and herself a major fact in the background of ¦ other great writers."
With an Afterword by Elizabeth Hardwick
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