Saturday, May 12, 2007

209. Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)

The first edition was published with Persuasion.

Synopsis from Amazon UK:
During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and horror, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father's mysterious house, Northanger Abbey. There, her imagination influenced by novels of sensation and intrigue, Catherine imagines terrible crimes committed by General Tilney.

My rating: 4 stars

Publication information:
  • [AUSTEN, Jane]. Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion. By the Author of “Pride and Prejudice,” “Mansfield-Park,” &c. With a Biographical Notice of the Author. In Four Volumes. London: John Murray, 1818. First edition. Four twelvemo volumes (6 5/8 x 4 inches; 169 x 101 mm.). xxiv, 300; [4], 331, [1, blank]; [4], 280; [4], 308 pp. Complete with half-titles. Volume IV bound without the final blank leaves P7 and P8.

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