Title: Northanger Abbey
Description: Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of the initiation into life of its naïve but sweetly appealing heroine, Catherine Morland, a willing victim of the contemporary craze for Gothic literature who is determined to see herself as the heroine of a dark and thrilling romance.

When Catherine is invited to Northanger Abbey, the grand though forbidding ancestral seat of her suitor, Henry Tilney, she finds herself embroiled in a real drama of misapprehension, mistreatment, and mortification, until common sense and humor—and a crucial clarification of Catherine’s financial status—puts all to right. Written in 1798 but not published until after Austen’s death in 1817, Northanger Abbey is characteristically clearheaded and strong, and infinitely subtle in its comedy.
Subjects: Mate selection, Cousins, Fiction, Young women, Horror tales, Families, Uncles, Appreciation, Children of the rich, English Love stories, Sisters, Courtship, Books and reading, Open Library Staff Picks, Country homes, Rejection (Psychology), Fathers and daughters, Female friendship, Manners and customs, Social classes, Ship captains, Social life and customs, Adoptees, Motherless families, Love stories, English, Emma Woodhouse (Fictitious character), Young women -- Fiction, English Romance fiction, Romantaic suspense novels, Gothic novels, Romance fiction, Satire, Northanger Abbey, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), England, fiction, Young women, fiction, English literature, Correspondence, English Novelists, Marriage, Gentry, Large type books, Literature: Classics, Fiction, gothic, Fiction, satire, Fiction, general, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, romance, general, Powieść angielska, Tłumaczenia polskie, Economic aspects, Northanger Abbey (Austen, Jane), Persuasion (Austen, Jane), Fiction, horror, Romans, nouvelles, Mœurs et coutumes, Nineteenth century,, Nineteenth century, Romance, Suspense, Readers, Children's fiction, Austen, jane , 1775-1817, Morland, catherine, Horror tales--appreciation, Horror tales--appreciation--fiction, Books and reading--fiction, Young women--fiction, Young women--england--fiction, Pr4034 .n7 2004, 823/.7, Literature, history and criticism, Literature and fiction (general)
Places: England
Time periods: 19 w.