Northhanger Abbey - Persuasion

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AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally. Amazon Inspire Digital Educational Resources. Amazon Rapids Fun stories for kids on the go. Amazon Restaurants Food delivery from local restaurants. ComiXology Thousands of Digital Comics. I love her integrity. She faces desolation but does not turn to bitterness. In the end, she is rewarded for her virtue. That's why we love Jane. I picked this up for Persuasion , but I like Northanger Abbey better.

I like the self-conscious poking fun of novels, their readers, and those critical of them. I found Catherine Morland to be a very appealing heroine.

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Henry Tilney was kind of annoying at first, but became endearing fairly quickly. I would like to see a movie of this one. Nov 24, Jennifer rated it it was ok. This story was a quick peek into the social life of Bath in the late s. While I knew before reading it the novel was a satire of Gothic literature, it seemed forever to reach that stage.

Northanger abbey, and Persuasion.

The book drags tediously before the character even gets to Northanger Abbey. I did not find it to be a compelling or suspenseful book. While I acknowledge Jane Austen is a superb writer, especially in character and dialogue, for some reason I am unable to connect with her work.

Jan 03, Kerri rated it liked it. These two books were ok. They were really exciting at first and I liked the stories, but they were more drawn out than my favorite Pride and Prejudice. I didn't really like the ending of Northhanger Abbey because there wasn't enough dialog. It just tells you that he confesses his love and she was anxious to hear it It didn't really take you through it with dialog! The Gothic aspects of this are all in the mind of the protagonist"," Catherine Morland"," who reads way too many scary books. As a result"," she tends to view the actions of her acquaintances and neighbors as sinister plots.

When she gets a chance to spend time at an actual abbey"," Catherine is ecstatic — until it all goes wrong. I liked the book. Parts were hard to follow. I think because of some of the ways people behave we don't act the same way now. Also some of the places people went to for enterttainment don't exist any more like the pump room.

But I was able to figure out what the pump room was. It is hard to believe that this book and Pride and Prejustice are written by the same author. Feb 18, Blake rated it it was amazing Shelves: I thought this a good introduction to Jane Austen. One can easily note from here what potential she has for further works. There were some delightful scenes worthy of her later novels as wit goes, but the ending left me somewhat less enthusiastic to read them than perhaps they deserved.

It has not some of the most charming features of her others. Persuasion was not my favorite Austen. It's so very different from the others, but has its own merits in that fact. You can almost tell she wrote this later in life. The heroine and hero are considerably older than her normal characters, which gives them a different perspective on life and love. The fact that these two people have loved each other and lost each other is also quite special.

I'm finding Austen's endings a bit too predictable I know, how else could they end. But Austen has a tendency to write a great story and then precipitously wrap everything up in one chapter. Still, I had a good time reading these books. Aug 04, Melissa rated it really liked it. I don't know how this little book escaped my Austen fettish, but it did and I am glad for it. I needed a good but quick Austen read and though this one wasn't my favorite of hers, I still loved reading it.

Feb 07, Jacqui rated it really liked it Shelves: I think Northhanger Abbey is my favourite Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice is great but this one has laugh out loud moments and I loved Henry, he was classic! I also enjoy persuasion but I'd put it third on my Jane Austen top 5. You have to wrap your head around the period speak but if you can it is a very interesting.

You look at the world in a whole new way. It is from the turn of the century and translated from russian. Told from the story tellers point of view. Aug 16, Renetsu rated it liked it Shelves: Sep 18, Deanne rated it liked it. But it wasn't one of my favorite books. I may have enjoyed it more if I were at a younger age, maybe as a teenager. Jun 11, Noey added it.

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There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics. Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.

Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. Persuasion is the tale of the romance between his pretty and friendly younger daughter Anne who meets the novel's hero, Captain Wentworth and in spite of social barriers and the rival Musgrove sisters - Louisa and Henrietta - pursues his affection having once turned him down as a spouse.

Born on December 16th, ; Jane Austen was the 7th child among 8 children of Rev. George Austen, and Cassandra Leigh.

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Jane Austen's only sister, Cassandra, was her closest confidante and friend throughout her life, and the other sibling closest to Jane Austen was her brother Henry, a banker and later Anglican clergyman. Henry also acted as her literary agent and it was through his circle of friends bankers, merchants, publishers, painters, and actors Jane Austen formed her views about the social worlds.

Jane Austen's first novel, 'Sense and Sensibility', appeared in , and was followed by the favourably reviewed 'Pride and Prejudice' described by her as her "own darling child" in All of Jane Austen's novels were published anonymously her name being revealed after the publication of her nephew's A Memoir of the Life of Jane Austen, in