Northanger Abbey (Historium Press Classics)

<p><strong>Historium Press Classics collector's edition with a foreword by Kate Westwood Historical Regency author of Woodston: a sequel to Northanger Abbey and A Scandal at Deptford</strong></p><p><br></p><p>A new edition of Jane Austen's <strong><em>Northanger Abbey </em></strong>originally published posthumously in 1818. <strong><em>Northanger Abbey </em></strong>is the story of seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland one of ten children of a country clergyman whose wild imagination and excessive fondness for Gothic novels (especially Ann Radcliffe's <em>Mysteries of Udolpho</em>) has skewed her worldview and interactions with others to great comic effect. </p><p>Fundamentally a parody of the Gothic fiction that was so popular in Austen's formative years <strong><em>Northanger Abbey </em></strong>is a uniquely significant work in that it shows Austen's departure from those conventions and tropes -- featuring three dimensional heroines who were not perfect people but flawed rounded characters who behaved naturally and not just as the novel's plot demanded. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p>