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Catherine Morland, a charming young girl extremely fond of novels, meets the sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father’s mysterious estate – Northanger Abbey. There Catherine runs into both real difficulties and imaginary dangers, and learns how to tell the difference between books and real life, between false friends and true ones.
This is a wonderful parody of the late 18th-centry Gothic style, with fainting heroines, haunted me ...more
Catherine Morland, a charming young girl extremely fond of novels, meets the sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father’s mysterious estate – Northanger Abbey. There Catherine runs into both real difficulties and imaginary dangers, and learns how to tell the difference between books and real life, between false friends and true ones.
This is a wonderful parody of the late 18th-centry Gothic style, with fainting heroines, haunted me ...more
This is my second JA novel and while I enjoyed it, the ending was a bit of a letdown. It's definitely a coming of age story so it felt very much like a YA story but I loved the way JA presented it through her amusing and very 'classical' style. I always heard that this was a gothic story but it didn't really feel that way so if you are expecting that as well, you may be a little disappointed. I realize now that it is more of a satire of that genre but did not become aware of that until later in
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Kelly
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Kris (My Novelesque Life)
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