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Northanger Abbey2010

by Jane Austen

<p><i>Northanger Abbey</i> is the coming-of-age story of Catherine Morland, a seventeen-year-old girl who’s entering society for the first time. Despite her naivete, she quickly gains two potential suitors. We follow Catherine as she tries to navigate the difficulties of romance, friendship, and responsibility—problems amplified by the fact that Catherine views her world through the lens of the dramatic Gothic novels she loves to read. Austen deftly satirizes both the Gothic novels popular at the time (especially <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ann-radcliffe">Ann Radcliffe’s</a> <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ann-radcliffe/the-mysteries-of-udolpho"><i>The Mysteries of Udolpho</i></a>), as well as contemporary society and women’s role in it.</p> <p>Completed in 1803,...
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