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![]() ****Northanger Abbeyby Jane Austen Reviewed February 1, 2003.
Signet Classics, New York, 1980. Originally published in 1818. 221 pages. Available at Sembach Library (F AUS) A Sonderbooks’ Stand-out of 2003: #2, Fiction Old Favorites After Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey is one of my favorite Jane Austen books. It’s a bit shorter than some. The plot is simple and fun. In this book, Jane Austen pokes fun at the popular Gothic horror novels of her day. Her heroine loves to read them, and so expects a fearsome setting when she’s invited to spend time at Northanger Abbey. There are the usual misunderstandings in the important game of finding a husband. More good-hearted fun from one of the original writers of romantic comedy. Reviews of books related to Jane Austen: Flirting with Pride and Prejudice, edited by Jennifer Crusie A Jane Austen Education, by William Deresiewicz An Assembly Such As This: Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman, Book 1, by Pamela Aidan Duty and Desire: Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman, Book 2, by Pamela Aidan These Three Remain: Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman, Book 3, by Pamela Aidan Sense and Sensibility, by Joanna Trollope Northanger Abbey, by Val McDermid Emma, by Alexander McCall Smith Austenland, by Shannon Hale Midnight in Austenland, by Shannnon Hale Jane Austen in Scarsdale, by Paula Marantz Cohen Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen, by Fay Weldon Jane and the Man of the Cloth, by Stephanie Barron Jane and the Wandering Eye, by Stephanie Barron Jane and the Prisoner of Wool House, by Stephanie Barron Jane and the Ghosts of Netley, by Stephanie Barron Death Comes to Pemberley, by P. D. James Pride and Prescience, by Carrie A. Bebris Suspense and Sensibility, by Carrie A. Bebris North by Northanger, by Carrie A. Bebris The Jane Austen Book Club, by Karen Joy Fowler For Darkness Shows the Stars, by Diana Peterfreund The Stars We Steal, by Alexa Donne Keeping the Castle, by Patrice Kindl Pride, by Ibi Zoboi First Impressions, by Marilyn Sachs Copyright © 2006 Sondra Eklund. All
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