Northanger Abbey (Barnes & Noble Classics)
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1593083807
Manufacturer: Barnes & Noble Classics
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Editorial Reviews
Product Description:
A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Austen’s “Gothic parody.” Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers give the story an uncanny air, but one with a decidedly satirical twist.
The story’s unlikely heroine is Catherine Morland, a remarkably innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, a great reader of Gothic thrillers, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with terrible suspicions. What is the mystery surrounding the death of Henry’s mother? Is the family concealing a terrible secret within the elegant rooms of the Abbey? Can she trust Henry, or is he part of an evil conspiracy? Catherine finds dreadful portents in the most prosaic events, until Henry persuades her to see the peril in confusing life with art.
Executed with high-spirited gusto, Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen’s novels, yet at its core this delightful novel is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage.
Alfred Mac Adam teaches literature at Barnard College–Columbia University. He is a translator and art critic.
Customer Reviews
Not to be confused with a different B&N edition, this edition is sturdy and has added features. by z hayes
Frankly I am puzzled by the criticisms leveled at this edition. There is another edition [also by Barnes and Noble] and it is cheaper, though the quality is very flimsy and I wonder if the other reviewers were confused with that edition?
This edition of Northanger Abbey is beautifully bound, with a cloth spine, and has a lovely portrait on the cover. The text is not too small unlike some other editions, it makes for comfortable reading. The book itself is sturdy, as it is in hardback, but not unwieldy - it fits nicely into my hands. Besides the main text of Austen’s novel itself, it has added features - a brief chronology of the world of Jane Austen & Northanger Abbey, an introduction, the main text, as well as useful endnotes, inspiration for Northanger Abbey,comments, as well as a list of resources for further reading and criticisms. In all, a value buy.
Buy a Different Edition by tmb110
I love Jane Austen’s stories so my problem is not with them at all - the physical book, however, was awful. The pages are that of books from a book club. The paper was coarse and had uneven edges.
The information in the book was great, including other movies and books inspired by each novel. I really like that part of it but could not get over the lack of quality in the paper and presentation.
Unless you do not mind the eyesores and absent neatness, buy a different version of this book.
A good read by Jennifer A. Crowell
I found the story to be a good one, but Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion will always be Jane Austen’s best works I feel as do others I have talked to. As for the quality of the paper it is of good quality not poor as mentioned in another review.
Didn’t like the paper quality and presentation by Vanessa Chan
I bought them (Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park and Emma) to complete my Jane Austen’s collection, and honestly, didn’t like the paper quality, it seems like they didn’t even care for the presentation of them; it didn’t look elegant, cheap to be more specific.
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