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Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
by Jane Austen
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Peebles, Scottish Borders, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Condition: Very Good; slight surface wear, to boards. Small internal cracking to the spine, the binding still tight. The interior is clean without markings except for the previous owner's name. Leather bound softcover, with gilded edges and a satin ribbon marker. Previous owner's name. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Thistle and Heather Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1912
- Title
- Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
- Author
- Jane Austen
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Date Published
- 1930
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian & Collectable; Fiction Vintage;
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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