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Northanger Abbey : Lady Susan ([New] edition)

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'...in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or magnified his cruelty.'Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels.

Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical villains work their evil on forlorn heroines in isolated settings.

What could be more remote from the uneventful securities of life in the midland counties of England?

Yet as Austen brilliantly contrasts fiction with reality, ordinary life takes a more sinister turn, and edginess and circumspection are reaffirmed alongside comedy and literary burlesque. Also including Austen's other short fictions, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon, this valuable new edition examines the ambitious and innovative works with which she inaugurated as well as closed her career.

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Oxford University Press
019953554X / 9780199535545
Paperback / softback
823.7
17/04/2008
United Kingdom
English
Classics
l, 379 pages
20 cm
Quiz No: 200581, Points 16.00, Book Level 10.80,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More
Reprint. This edition originally published: 2003.