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Catherine Morland, a charming young girl extremely fond of novels, meets the sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father’s mysterious estate – Northanger Abbey. There Catherine runs into both real difficulties and imaginary dangers, and learns how to tell the difference between books and real life, between false friends and true ones.
This is a wonderful parody of the late 18th-centry Gothic style, with fainting heroines, haunted me ...more
Catherine Morland, a charming young girl extremely fond of novels, meets the sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father’s mysterious estate – Northanger Abbey. There Catherine runs into both real difficulties and imaginary dangers, and learns how to tell the difference between books and real life, between false friends and true ones.
This is a wonderful parody of the late 18th-centry Gothic style, with fainting heroines, haunted me ...more
This isn't my favourite Jane Austen novel. Although it is entertaining, and as usual, Austen's wit and satire is cutting, I found the end of the story a bit sudden and unsatisfying. I did enjoy Catherine as she grew and gained knowledge about life and the vacuous nature of so many people, but I wasn't as enchanted by this novel as I have been by some of her others. It is actually a 3.5 star read for me.
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This is the 8th book I'm "currently reading" ... this one for a group read. I need to finish some of the ones I've been reading for awhile! :-)
I finished this week. I did not like it nearly as much as P & P, but it got better further into it. She seemed pretty shallow. She was VERY quick to jump to conclusions based on little or no evidence. She wasn't a character I cared much about. Overall an ok book, but not one I'll read again probably. ...more
I finished this week. I did not like it nearly as much as P & P, but it got better further into it. She seemed pretty shallow. She was VERY quick to jump to conclusions based on little or no evidence. She wasn't a character I cared much about. Overall an ok book, but not one I'll read again probably. ...more
I loved Pride and Prejudice, so why did it take me so long to pick up and read this? I think I may have loved it even more. I've heard Northanger Abbey described as a satire of the popular gothic novels of the time, but I think it's more of a love letter to them. As an example, see the solid page and a half where the narrator (or perhaps Jane Austen herself) rails about how even in other novels (seen as somewhat trashy at the time), the heroines never love novels - and how novels are just as val
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Feb 18, 2010
Amelia
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Katharine
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Jan 19, 2016
Jim Townsend
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