This is my favorite Jane Austen novel. People who hear me say that generally look around in surprise to see where the crazy person is. This is not a book that even people who say they've read Jane Austen have read, and it gets very little attention compared to her others (and obviously comparative...
As opposed to the novels she wrote later and published earlier, there is something slight about 'Northanger Abbey'. The sharp wit and the characters, surely sketched from life, are present, but those characters and that wit and the locations and the plot don't bind themselves together.Catherine's ce...
It's not too often in my life that I'm not actively re-reading one of Austen's novels. Pride and Prejudice is arguably my favourite, the staple to which I run again and again in all weathers, moods, and situations. The others are harder to rate one against the other, since they all have such nuance ...
When I was half way through Northanger Abbey I was thinking:“Upon my word! Half way through the book and nothing notable seems to have transpired! I was expecting Miss Austen to supply greater felicity than she has managed thus far and once again receive my complete approbation! I do declare I am aw...
This is my final Jane Austen book - the only one I hadn't read. It's definitely not up with my top three (Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Persuasion), but at the same time I did really like it. I'd probably place it on about a par with Sense and Sensibility (I didn't like Mansfield Park at all). T...
I really enjoyed reading this as a group read with Murder by Death. Please check out her thoughts on the book here. ------------------------------------- This appears to be a Jane Austen year for me and I can't say I'm unhappy about that at all! My first time reads of her works actually mirror alm...
Enjoyed it more than Emma but less than Mansfield Park. Critics argue that Northanger Abbey would be better placed among Jane Austen's juvenilia, and while I'm hardly qualified to disagree, I found it to be overall a well-written book save for the character development. In this area, the book pro...
Jane lets her wicked humor loose in this book, poking gentle (and sometimes not so gentle) fun at just about everyone’s poses, pretensions, and delusions, but as silly as Austen makes novel-drama-obsessed Catherine she still allows her to be artlessly charming and a lively joy to spend time with, an...
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