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Written by: Jane Austen
Recommended Age: 17+ years
“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”
Published posthumously, Northanger Abbey is, in fact, Jane Austen’s first novel. The shortest of her works, it is also the wittiest a light-hearted satire of Gothic novels, which were quite the rage at the time. There is the seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, who loves such books and readily believes such mysterious and dark events to be afoot in her own world. There is John Thorpe – vain and authoritative, and Henry Tilney – charming and witty.
And of course, there is Northanger Abbey, full of mystery, horror and dark secrets or so Catherine would believe. This is a tale of growing up and learning to understand the world, and ultimately finding happiness.
245 pages
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