Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
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Author: Jane AustenNarrator: Donada Peters
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Audiobook, CD
Published: 2006-02-01
ISBN: 1400102057
Publisher: Tantor Media
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Book Review: Northanger Abbey
Summary: 1 Stars
If you were nurtured on the original recording by Anna Massey, prepare for great disappointment. Not only does the reader, Donada Peters, pronounce English with an American accent, she has failed miserably to capture the true spirit of Austen. This should be funny. It is sadly dull.
Summary of Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey is the earliest of Jane Austen's great comedies of female enlightenment and combines literary burlesque - making fun of the excesses of the Gothic novel - with larger moral, philosophical, and social issues: the folly of letting literature get in the way of life, the inexcusability of not thinking for oneself, and the painful difficulties (especially for women) involved in growing up. Lady Susan and The Watsons are early compositions that reflect many of the qualities of Northanger Abbey. The first is an epistolary novel centring on the intrigues of the villainous Lady Susan; the second is an unfinished example of Jane Austen's most characteristic form - a story where the heroine is outstanding for her sense and goodness, virtues notably lacking in the other characters, who are here part of an altogether bleaker vision. Sanditon, too, is tragically incomplete, and it signals the achievement of a new depth and breadth of comic insight on the part of its author.Austen, Jane Books
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