Northanger Abbey
About this book
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.
Subjects
- adoptees
- appreciation
- books and reading
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- children of the rich
- correspondence
- country homes
- courtship
- cousins
- emma woodhouse (fictitious character)
- england, fiction
- english literature
- english love stories
- english novelists
- english romance fiction
- families
- fathers and daughters
- female friendship
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fiction, gothic
- fiction, historical, general
- fiction, romance, general
- fiction, satire
- gentry
- gothic novels
- horror tales
- large type books
- literature: classics
- love stories, english
- manners and customs
- marriage
- mate selection
- motherless families
- northanger abbey
- open library staff picks
- powieść angielska
- rejection (psychology)
- romance fiction
- romantaic suspense novels
- satire
- ship captains
- sisters
- social classes
- social life and customs
- tłumaczenia polskie
- uncles
- young women
- young women -- fiction
- young women, fiction