Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (Epub)

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The story’s heroine, seventeen year old Catherine Morland, is invited by her neighbours, the Allens, to accompany them to visit Bath for a number of weeks. While, initially, the excitement of experiencing such a place was dampened by her lack of other acquaintances, she is soon introduced to an intriguing young gentleman named Henry Tilney, though her attention was quickly taken upon meeting a young lady named Isabella Thorpe. Isabella tries to make a match between Catherine and her brother John. John Thorpe continually tries to sabotage her relationship with the Tilneys, which leads to many misunderstandings.

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⭐ Nowhere in the description of this book is it mentioned that this version is abridged or rewritten. It is a fiasco of jumbled sentences and mangled grammar; none of which can be attributed to the glorious Jane Austen.It was tough to find Austen’s usual sarcastic, edgy heroine or hone in on the pithy social commentary that punctuates her novels. This version read insipid, hollow and left me wondering if J.A. actually wrote it. For the life of me, I cannot remember reading this during my school days so I have nothing to compare this to other than other reviewers. After checking them out, it’s clear this title has had LOTS of troubles since its publication, not the least of which is it’s very identity!All in all, I’ve had good experiences with Amazon Classics. This particular volume needs to have a new edition, as in completely revised and updated

⭐ Northanger Abbey is now the fifth Jane Austen novel I’ve read. It contains many things to reflect upon: the virtues necessary for matrimony, the role of fiction in a well made life, the unity of the narrative despite the change in scene from Bath to the Abbey, etc.Many volumes of commentary have already been written on these and other topics. I simply noticed that Austen is such the consummate artist that the reader of Northanger Abbey doesn’t notice the elaborate scaffolding underlying the narrative.Isabel’s vices and her subsequent failure at matrimony, the contrast with Catherine’s vices spurred by a Gothic imagination, the change in comportment between Bath and Northanger, Catherine’s growth in maturity throughout the novel…all of these are done so well that one doesn’t notice the elaborate work the author is doing to bring all of these elements into one story.It all makes for very satisfying reading. Highly recommended to Austen fans or anyone interested in Austen’s exploration of these perennial themes.

⭐ Hideous number of typos make it a difficult read. Before you can get into the rhythm of the paragraph, there is a typo to stumble over: heavily repeated run-on words possibly caused by careless editing for space constraints. Very dissappointing.

⭐ Jane Austin is really really long winded. I only read this book because of a college course, but had to start skimming through the book at around 12% of the way through. It started to get a little bit interesting around the 75% point, with the Gothic elements that were introduced, but it was not an enjoyable read. The majority of the story is Catherine talking to other women about what man they desire. Or the men talking to the women and flirting. There were a lot of dances. It was just…dull…

⭐ 17 year old Catherine Moreland enters into society with a splash at Bath, attracting the attentions of both Henry Tilney and John Thorpe. While Mr. Thorpe has a dashing carriage and set of horses and likes to go riding everywhere, Mr. Tilney likes reading the same kind of gothic romances that Miss Moreland does, and moreover lives at that most romantic sounding address – Northanger Abbey!Jane Austen is in her element as she slyly puts her tongue firmly in her cheek in this sendup of gothic romance. It is the first of her six great novels that she sold, but the last to be published. For some reason a publisher paid good money for the book, then did not print it – he had to be sued to return the manuscript!This handsome Kindle edition from Wisehouse Classics has beautiful clear typography and a clickable table of contents. It is an elegant addition to your reading collection and will bring hours of pleasure.

⭐ A bit hesitant to read this after watching the movie several years ago but ended up enjoying the novel far more than I expected. Quite liked Catherine Morland the heroine of the story, a young, sheltered lady but ultimately with her own code of honour and integrity. Henry Tilney was in my opinion the perfect hero for her character.My only quibble with the story over all, I wanted to know how the Thorpe family ultimately fared, particularly Isabelle whose actions very much aided the growth of Catherine as a character.For this edition there were a few typos but not enough to interrupt the flow of the novel.

⭐ Northanger Abbey is like a juvenile attemptt to imitate Jane Austen’s writing. The first half of the novel demonstrates the ridiculous aspects of Gothic novels: bizarre details in spooky places, and the book creates the amusing quirky characters that Austen is known for, but the impetuousness of the main character, Catherine, and the author’s over reliance on sudden fortunes gained, along with the importance given to wealth, make the story less than believable. Still, it is a novel that will fuel the dreams of young girls who hope to find happiness ever after in marriage.

⭐ Every time the chapter changed, there was a loud, high-pitched screech! I had to turn the volume way down, every time it seemed a chapter was ending. Needless to say, it was not a good situation while I was driving as I would jump from being startled. In terms of positives (and why I didn’t give a one star rating), the narrator did an excellent job. By the narrator’s inflections, I picked up on aspects of the book that I hadn’t caught when reading the text.

⭐ Comparing this to Austen’s other work, I still love Pride and Prejudice the most, but Northanger Abbey was a great book. As usual, the book was filled with Austen’s witty narration and dialogue. Her keen observation of human nature is timeless.Catherine is a kind-hearted, energetic, but naïve young seventeen year old who has gone with her neighbors on a holiday to Bath. Here she meets the hero of the tale, Henry Tilney, and his foil, the fortune hunting Mr. Thorpe. During a later stay at an old abbey, Catherine, influenced by reading too many gothic novels, lets her imagination get the best of her and begins to suspect evil goings-on.I alternated reading and listening to the Audible version read by Juliet Stevenson, who is always a terrific Austen reader. I laughed out loud many times, especially at the descriptions of Mr. Thorpe and his sister Isabella. I also enjoyed the allusions to gothic literature, which I like to read. I think I may just have to read Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho next.

⭐ I have never read anything by Jane Austen before, but I thought I would give this one a try when I saw it described as a satire on Gothic Novels.The heroine, Catherine, while on an extended visit, became friends with Isabella, and they spent a lot of their time reading together. Isabella set her up with “The Mysteries of Udolpho” (by Ann Radcliffe,) and suggested others which they could read together as well: “Castle of Wolfenbach,” “Clermont,” “Mysterious Warnings,” “Necromancer of the Black Forest,” “Midnight Bell,” “Orphan of the Rhine,” “Horrid Mysteries,” and “The Italian.” All nine of these are actual novels, classed together as “Northanger Abbey Horrid Novels.” We can observe how events in “Udolpho” could fire up Catherine’s imagination as to current people, places and events.As an aside, I thought that the way different individuals in Jane Austen’s book felt about “novel reading” had significance.John Thorpe, who was interested in Catherine: “I never read novels; I have something else to do… Novels are all so full of nonsense and stuff… they are the stupidest things in creation.”Henry, who Catherine fell in love with: “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. I have read all Mrs. Radcliffe’s works, and most of them with great pleasure. The Mysteries of Udolpho, when I had once begun it, I could not lay down again. I am proud when I reflect on it, and I think it must establish me in your good opinion…Young men for they read nearly as many as women. I myself have read hundreds and hundreds.”

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