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Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
by Jane Austen
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good.
- Seller
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Petworth, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: J M Dent, 1946. Hardcover. Good.. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. No 25 in the Everyman's Library. Reprint of the 1906 edition which was reset in 1932. Dust jacket has shelf wear with small tears to edges andtape repair to spinetop and bottom. Sunning to spine. Small stain to front cover. It is not price clipped. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Pages are clean and binding is tight. 12mo. Dust jacket is fair only but overall in good condition for its age. Previous owner's signature on fep. 1946
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
- Reader’s Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5558
- Title
- Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
- Author
- Jane Austen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J M Dent
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1946
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Petworth, West Sussex
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Market town general antiquarian book shop specialising in literature, travel and history.
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- 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....
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fair
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- Cloth
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- 12mo
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