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Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

Start date: November 1, 2014

Finish date: November 30, 2014

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Aug 31, 2013 Staciel rated it really liked it

Shelves: classic-lit

Oh, Jane Austen, I do love you!!! As a result, giving this book only 4 stars is causing me a bit of pain..

This year being the 200th Anniversary of Pride & Prejudice, I decided to take on one or two of Austen's novels that I was unfamiliar with... Up until this year, I would have been only able to discuss P&P, Sense & Sensibility and to a degree, Emma...

Today, I can add Persuasion (my new favorite Austen novel), and now Northanger Abbey to that list.

The 'heroine' of the novel, Catherine Morland i ...more

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Apr 25, 2011 Elisabeth rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011, it-s-a-classic

Enjoyable though very different to my favourite Austen's - P&P and Persuasion. I thought Catherine represented her age very well - she was a very sweet, sometimes foolish 17 year old who was unversed in the games people like Isabel and John Thorpe play. Henry Tilney was a lovely hero especially in comparison to the aloof Mr. Darcy and Captain Wentworth. He's the prototoype of the Beta hero in romance novels. It was nice to have a couple that genuinely liked one another from the beginning and tha ...more

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Dec 13, 2010 Michelle rated it liked it

Shelves: books-read-in-2010

I didn't like this book as much as some other Jane Austen books but there is something about her writing that reels me in at the end. P&P and Emma are still my favorites. ...more

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