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This is a satire, but it was hard for me to appreciate it without having read what she was satirizing. I've read a fair amount of victorian literature and tend to like it. To me this was more like an inside joke or Austen venting some frustration, rather than a planned out, intricate story like many victorian novels.
Maybe I'll try this again to see if I get it in the future. ...more
Maybe I'll try this again to see if I get it in the future. ...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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Jan 19, 2013
Toni
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Rusty
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Jan 19, 2016
Jim Townsend
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Brenda H
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Feb 12, 2018
Teddie
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