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Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
by Jane Austen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition
- Seller
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About This Item
MacMillan, London, 1897. First Thus. Hardcover. Good Condition. Illustrator: Hugh Thomson. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". xvi + 444pp. Hinges cracked. Spine cocked and faded with chips to base and slight loss to top. Endpapers browned, text has scattered foxing, but mostly clean. Edges browned and marked. Covers partially faded. Corners bumped. All illustrations present. Illustrator: Hugh Thomson. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 49366. .
Synopsis
Northanger Abbey was written in 1798, although it was not published until after her death when it was compiled with her final novel, Persuasion. It is notable for being a fierce parody of the late 18th century Gothic style's fainting heroines, 'terror' (giving hints of something fantastic but dreadful, only to quash it later with mundane truth) and haunted medieval buildings. Austen targets with particular venom Ann Radcliffe's extremely popular The Mysteries of Udolpho and has her characters reading and mimicking it whilst the author undermines it at every opportunity. Austen's comparatively thin novel as good as destroyed Radcliffe's reputation for almost two centuries and the exciting gothic writ large of Udolpho is only now being reassessed. Northanger Abbey itself concerns a typical Austen heroine, the young Catherine Morland who is taken to the fashionable resort of Bath with her friends the Allens. From there she travels to the eponymous medieval abbey, the seat of the Tilneys. As an impressionable girl, Catherine becomes obsessed with the possible atrocities going on at Northanger Abbey, inspired by Radcliffe's novel. As ever, Austen cannot resist injecting a little romance into proceedings and she puts Captain Tilney under the spell of the unpleasant, scheming Isabella Thorpe. The novel's central theme, common to Emma and Sense and Sensibility is the peril of confusing life and art: in this instance literature.
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- Bookseller
- Dreadnought Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49366
- Title
- Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
- Author
- Jane Austen
- Illustrator
- Hugh Thomson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- MacMillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1897
- Keywords
- BZDB243 Fiction; Hugh Thomson Unbranded Jane Austen Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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Founded in 2010, Dreadnought Books is a second-hand and out of print book dealer specialising in history, with a particular focus on military, social and labour history.
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- Spine
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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