Northanger Abbey
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Become an affiliateBorn in 1775, Jane Austen published four of her six novels anonymously. Her work was not widely read until the late nineteenth century, and her fame grew from then on. Known for her wit and sharp insight into social conventions, her novels about love, relationships, and society are more popular year after year. She has earned a place in history as one of the most cherished writers of English literature.
Wanda McCaddon (a.k.a. Nadia May or Donada Peters) has narrated well over six hundred titles for major audiobook publishers, has earned numerous Earphones Awards, and was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine.
About an imaginative young woman who reads too many Gothic novels, the story is Austen's most lighthearted.
-- "Boston Globe"Northanger Abbey, her most youthful and in many ways her most brillant novel...at times dares us to pay close attention to the artistic positions and processes her other novels tend to relegate to the background.
-- "Claudia L. Johnson, Murray Professor of English Literature at Princeton University"[Austen] uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of 'horrid' novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society...In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, nineteenth-century British style.
-- "Amazon.com, editorial review"Combines a satire on conventional novels of polite society with one on gothic tales of terror.
-- "Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature"