Northanger Abbey (Vintage Classics)

Author: Austen, Jane

Brand: Vintage Classics

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 256

Release Date: 07-08-2008

Part Number: 9780099511878

Details: Product Description


'Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire' J. K. Rowling Catherine Morland is a young girl with a very active imagination. Her naivety and love of sensational novels lead her to approach the fashionable social scene in Bath and her stay at nearby Northanger Abbey with preconceptions that have embarrassing and entertaining consequences.


Review


Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire -- J.K. Rowling

Somebody reading over my shoulder refuses to believe that I found Northanger Abbey funnier than
Catch 22, but I did. So there -- Jenny Colgan

The most perfect artist among women, the writer whose books are immortal -- Virginia Woolf

Jane Austen's lightest and most playful novel ―
Independent

Jane Austen shocks me. Beside her, Joyce seems innocent as grass -- W.H. Auden


About the Author


Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath, then to Southampton and finally to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing
Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called
First Impressions and was initially rejected by the publishers and only published in 1813 after much revision. She published four of her novels in her lifetime,
Sense and Sensibility (1811),
Pride and Prejudice (1813),
Mansfield Park (1814) and
Emma (1816). Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817.
Northanger Abbey and
Persuasion were both published posthumously in 1818.

EAN: 9780099511878

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.0 x 0.7 inches

Languages: English