Northanger Abbey depicts the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical villains work their evil on forlorn heroines in isolated settings. Also including Austen's other short fictions, Lady Susan , The Watsons , and Sanditon , this valuable new edition shows her to be as innovative at the start of her career as at its close ...
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Northanger Abbey depicts the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical villains work their evil on forlorn heroines in isolated settings. Also including Austen's other short fictions, Lady Susan , The Watsons , and Sanditon , this valuable new edition shows her to be as innovative at the start of her career as at its close.
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