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From the book:No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition, were all equally against her. Her father was a clergyman, without being neglected, or poor, and a very respec-table man, though his name was Richard - and he had never been handsome. He had a considerable indepen-dence besides two good livings - and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters. Her mother was a woman of useful plain sense, with a good temper, and, what is more remarkable, with a good constitution. She had three sons before Catherine was born; and instead of dying in bringing the latter into the world, as anybody might expect, she still lived on - lived to have six children more - to see them growing up around her, and to enjoy excellent health herself. A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number; but the Morlands had little other right to the word, for they were in general very plain, and Catherine, for many years of her life, as plain as any. She had a thin awkward figure, a sallow skin without colour, dark lank hair, and strong features - so much for her person; and not less unpropitious for heroism seemed her mind.
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Mate selection, Cousins, Fiction, Young women, Horror tales, Families, Uncles, Appreciation, Children of the rich, English Love stories, Sisters, Courtship, Books and reading, Open Library Staff Picks, Country homes, Rejection (Psychology), Fathers and daughters, Female friendship, Manners and customs, Social classes, Ship captains, Social life and customs, Adoptees, Motherless families, Love stories, English, Emma Woodhouse (Fictitious character), Young women -- Fiction, English Romance fiction, Romantaic suspense novels, Gothic novels, Romance fiction, Satire, Northanger Abbey, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), England, fiction, Young women, fiction, English literature, Correspondence, English Novelists, Marriage, Gentry, Large type books, Literature: Classics, Fiction, gothic, Fiction, satire, Fiction, general, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, romance, general, Powieść angielska, Tłumaczenia polskie, Economic aspects, Northanger Abbey (Austen, Jane), Persuasion (Austen, Jane), Fiction, horror, Romans, nouvelles, Mœurs et coutumes, Nineteenth century,, Nineteenth century, Romance, Suspense, Readers, Children's fiction, Austen, jane , 1775-1817, Morland, catherine, Horror tales--appreciation, Horror tales--appreciation--fiction, Books and reading--fiction, Young women--fiction, Young women--england--fiction, Pr4034 .n7 2004, 823/.7, Literature, history and criticismPlaces
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Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of the initiation into life of its naïve but sweetly appealing heroine, Catherine Morland, a willing victim of the contemporary craze for Gothic literature who is determined to see herself as the heroine of a dark and thrilling romance.
When Catherine is invited to Northanger Abbey, the grand though forbidding ancestral seat of her suitor, Henry Tilney, she finds herself embroiled in a real drama of misapprehension, mistreatment, and mortification, until common sense and humor—and a crucial clarification of Catherine’s financial status—puts all to right. Written in 1798 but not published until after Austen’s death in 1817, Northanger Abbey is characteristically clearheaded and strong, and infinitely subtle in its comedy.
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