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To coincide with the launch of The Austen Project an ebook collection of Jane Austen's timeless novels. 'Northanger Abbey! These were thrilling words, and wound up Catherine's feelings to the highest point of ecstasy.' Considered the most light-hearted and satirical of Austen's novels, Northanger Abbey tells the story of an unlikely young heroine Catherine Morland. While staying in Bath, Catherine meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor who invite...
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A homeschooled minister's daughter in the quaint, sheltered Piddle Valley in Dorset, Cat Morland loses herself in novels and is sure there is a glamorous adventure awaiting her beyond the valley's narrow horizon. So, imagine her delight when the Allens, neighbors and friends of her parents, invite her to attend the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh as their guest. With a sunny personality, tickets every night, and a few key wardrobe additions courtesy...
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Catherine Morland is a young woman addicted to Gothic romance novels. Her family sends her to Bath, and in its society of decadence and deceit, she makes the acquaintance of romantic Henry Tilney and his family. When she is invited to his ancestral home, Northanger Abbey, a mystery unfolds, and she wonders if the fantasies inspired by the novels she loves are coming true.
4) Ghosted
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2023
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Never Have I Ever meets The X-Files in Amanda Quain's Ghosted, a fresh and funny update on the Jane Austen classic, Northanger Abbey.
Hattie Tilney isn't a believer. Yes, she's a senior at America's most (allegedly) haunted high school, Northanger Abbey. But ever since her paranormal-loving dad passed away, she's hung up her Ghostbusters suit, put away the EMF detectors, and moved on. She has enough to worry
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WGBH Boston Video
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©2008
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"In Jane Austen's gentle parody of gothic fiction, romance novel addict Catherine Morland is invited to a medieval country house that appeals to her most lurid fantasies. She forms a close friendship with the younger son on the estate, Henry Tilney, but their budding romance is mysteriously cut short"--Container.
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Northanger Abbey volume 1
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Lovingly adapted from Jane Austen's most humorous work, Marvel Comics is proud to present literature lover Catherine Morland's quest to be the leading lady of her own great romance. Can real life prove the equal of the Gothic novels she finds so enchanting? Can Catherine find true love amid the fictions of others and her own wild imagination? And what dread secrets lie in wait in Northanger Abbey itself? Award-winning author Nancy Butler continues...
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Intrigue, adventure, and romance fill this enchanting dramatization of Jane Austen's last novel. With a love of Gothic tales and a head full of fantasy and fiction, young Catherine Morland enters the decadent society of 18th-century Bath. When Henry Tilney invites her to his ancestral home, Northanger Abbey, a dark mystery makes her blood run cold. What does the sinister General Tilney want? Will the truth destroy her one chance at love?
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For fans of Jane Austen-A Northanger Abbey Double Feature!
In Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, the main character, Catherine, receives a reading list of gothic novels. Once thought to be fabricated by Austen, these novels were rediscovered in the 1920s and are now referred to as the "Northanger Horrid Novels." Two of the Northanger Horrid Novels, The Castle of Wolfenbach and The Necromancer, are presented here as a Northanger Double Feature.
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Austen series volume 4
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Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
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2018.
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Award-winning narrator and internationally acclaimed writer/comedienne, Alison Larkin brings her signature wit to this dazzling audio production of Jane Austen's first novel, Northanger Abbey, followed by The History of England, a short, delightfully satirical piece that Austen wrote when she was just fifteen years old. In Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland, a clergyman's daughter, longs for the kind of romantic adventures she has read about in...
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A Study Guide for Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
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Life and Works of Jane Austen volume 8
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One of the two novels published after Austen's death, Northanger Abbey is Austen's love letter to the gothic novels of her youth. Look at the gothic tradition of the late 1700s and how Austen's gentle mocking of the melodramatic flourishes of the genre inform the experiences of her impressionable young heroine, Catherine Morland.
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Award-winning narrator and internationally acclaimed writer/comedienne, Alison Larkin brings depth and wit to this rich, hugely entertaining audio production of Jane Austen's last two great novels Northanger Abbey & Persuasion.
The novels are followed by The History of England, a short satirical piece in which the teenage Austen writes about the kings and queens of England with less respect (and more wit) than any British newspaper, and Poems, a...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Northanger Abbey with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, which follows the young, naïve Catherine Morland as she leaves behind her sheltered life and discovers polite society in Bath. In this novel, perceptive social observation and incisive wit are combined with a satire of the Gothic novel, as Catherine's overactive...
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Three classics about love, class, and social expectations by one of the greatest English authors of the nineteenth century.
This collection of Jane Austen's novels includes three timeless classics.
Persuasion: A woman is pressured by her family to end her engagement to a man of modest means-then meets him again years later, when both of their circumstances have changed.
Northanger Abbey: A young woman besotted by gothic novels sees danger lurking...
16) The Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma and Northanger Abbey
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Collins Classics brings you a selection of the best-loved novels by Jane Austen, including 'Pride and Prejudice' which, in 2013, celebrates the 200th anniversary of its publication. Complete with a Life & Times section, which offers insight into the author, her works and the time of publication, and a handy glossary adapted from the Collins English Dictionary, this Collins Classics Collection will enhance your reading experience of Jane Austen's novels.
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La abadía de Northanger narra la historia de Catherine Morland, una joven ingenua y aficionada a la lectura de novelas góticas, llenas de pasadizos ocultos, mazmorras y misterios. Invitada por los Tilney a pasar una temporada en su casa de campo, se dedicará a investigar tortuosos e imaginarios secretos de familia. Pero cuando finalmente todo se aclare y comprenda que la vida no es una novela, la inocente Catherine pondrá los pies en la tierra...
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Where the Crawdads Sing
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Where the Crawdads Sing
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In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman, as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.
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There has been a murder at Styles Court. Detective Poirot comes out of retirement to solve who would want the rich heiress Inglethorp dead, and would have the impudence to poison her. The jagged plot turns keep Poirot guessing as suspicion shifts from one peculiar character to the next.
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A summer house party turns into a thrilling whodunit when Jane Austen's Mr. Wickham—one of literature’s most notorious villains—meets a sudden and suspicious end in this brilliantly imagined mystery from a New York Times bestselling author featuring Austen’s leading literary characters.
“Had Jane Austen sat down to write a country house murder mystery, this is exactly the book she...
“Had Jane Austen sat down to write a country house murder mystery, this is exactly the book she...
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