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Wonderful book and I have read it many times. Read it 7 times. Catherine Morland is quite a funny character and a seventeen-year-old is reasonably represented in this story of misapprehensions and coming of age. It is hard to judge people of those times by today's standards, as times were so very different. Inheritance was so much more important than it is today, as was the acquisition of a title in the eyes of the classes which the protagonist socialises with. 113/2020. This was a set text at school when I was 11. As you can probably imagine, I had far more in common with the protagonist in the first few paragraphs, when she was keeping pets and rolling down hills, than for the entire remainder of the novel. I had no interest in romance novels and probably the only gothic fiction I'd encountered was Scooby Doo cartoons. And so I, like so many other schoolchildren, was unnecessarily put off a classic text and author for no perceivable reason. Fortunately, unlike many other ex-schoolchildren, I had the inclination to re-assay a few of the classics that education had ruined for me by forcing them on me when I was far too young to connect with them. Needless to say that as an adult I have much more empathy for the teenage heroine than I did as a child. Northanger Abbey isn't as funny as Pride and Prejudice, or as emotive as Sense and Sensibility, and it shares the mild tendency to longueurs with Persuasion, but the protagonist is adorable and the author witty. My only annoyance with the novel is the hero, Henry Tilney, who is one of those ghastly entitled sons of the gentry who claims a position in the Church of England for the tied house and tithed income and then takes the money and runs, leaving the pastoral care of his parishioners to an underpaid curate. Jane Austen did care enough about the situation to show Henry attending at least one parish meeting, which would've been in his financial interests after all, and filling in at one Sunday service because his curate was otherwise occupied, so that's more of a damn than most of this author's peers gave, but even as someone who couldn't give two hoots about religion I still can't like or approve of Henry the greedy hypocrite. I can only hope teen bride Catherine Morland's early family training stays with her into marriage and she doesn't begin to imitate her Tilney in-laws too much. Quote "She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can." currently listening to: librivox on ipod while i walk to and from work. so nice! **** loved it! although i wish there had been a showdown with isabella at the end. Kuuluu näihin kustantajien sarjoihinBiblioteca Universale Rizzoli (Superbur Classici, 173) — 26 lisää Everyman's Library (25) Flipback (Classics 3) insel taschenbuch (931) I Libri dell'Unità (Illusioni e Fantasmi, 5) Penguin English Library (EL74) Virago Modern Classics (346) Sisältyy tähän:Northanger Abbey ; Persuasion (tekijä: Jane Austen) Emma ; Lady Susan ; Mansfield Park ; Northanger Abbey ; Persuasion ; Pride and Prejudice ; Sense and Sensibility (tekijä: Jane Austen) Emma ; Mansfield Park ; Northanger Abbey ; Persuasion ; Pride and prejudice ; Sense and sensibility (tekijä: Jane Austen) Folio Society Jane Austen Set (Seven volume set: Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion; Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Shorter Works) (tekijä: Jane Austen) Emma/Mansfield Park/Northanger Abbey/Persuasion/Pride and Prejudice/Sense and Sensibility AND Catharine/Lady Susan/Sanditon/The Watsons (tekijä: Jane Austen) Northanger Abbey AND The Watsons (tekijä: Jane Austen) Emma / Mansfield Park / Northanger Abbey / Persuasion / Pride and Prejudice / Sense and Sensibility / Lady Susan / Love and Friendship (tekijä: Jane Austen) Œuvres romanesques complètes I, II (tekijä: Jane Austen) (epäsuora) The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen (9 Volume Hardback Set) (tekijä: Jane Austen) (epäsuora) Tämä on uudelleenkerrottu:Northanger Abbey (tekijä: Val McDermid) Northanger Alibi (tekijä: Jenni James) Tällä on sarjaan kuulumaton jatko-osaThere Must Be Murder (tekijä: Margaret C. Sullivan) Uninvited Guests (tekijä: Jane Gillespie) Mukaelmia:Northanger Abbey [2007 film] (tekijä: Jon Jones) Graphic Classics: Gothic Classics (tekijä: Tom Pomplun) Northanger Abbey [1986 film] (tekijä: Giles Foster) Parodia tästä:Udolpho (tekijä: Ann Radcliffe) The Italian (tekijä: Ann Radcliffe) Clermont (tekijä: Regina Maria Roche) On parodioitu tässä:Tähän on vastattu täällä:Henry Tilney's Diary (tekijä: Amanda Grange) Saanut innoituksensa tästä:The Female Quixote (tekijä: Charlotte Lennox) Innoitti:Tällä on lisäosaBath as Jane Austen Knew It (tekijä: Terry Old) Tämän tekstillä on selostus:Sisältää opiskelijan oppaan
"When Catherine Morland, a country clergyman's daughter, is invited to spend a season in Bath with the fashionable high society, little does she imagine the delights and perils that await her. Captivated and disconcerted by what she finds, and introduced to the joys of 'Gothic novels' by her new friend, Isabella, Catherine longs for mystery and romance. When she is invited to stay with the beguiling Henry Tilney and his family at Northanger Abbey, she expects mystery and intrigue at every turn. However, the truth turns out to be even stranger than fiction ..."--Container. No library descriptions found. |
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Nos cuenta las tribulaciones de una chica de 17 años que va a pasar unas vacaciones a la costa en compañía de unos vecinos. Al principio se aburre como una ostra, pero pronto hace una amiga (que, en pocas horas, será ya "su muy mejor amiga" y que al lector nunca acabará de gustarle tanto) y, naturalmente, aparece el chico que le gusta. Pasa el tiempo nuestra heroína imaginándose aventuras románticas, buscando al chico que le gusta y huyendo de un plasta (hermano de su amiga) que está decidido a casarse con ella. Para la segunda parte, resulta que nuestra protagonista es invitada sorprendentemente nada menos que a pasar unas semanas con la familia del chico que le gusta en una antigua abadía que hoy es su casa familiar. ¡Para qué queremos más! Esta muchacha pasa unas horas estupendas durante el viaje imaginándose aventuras tenebrosas, pasadizos, asesinatos, espíritus y varias cosas más. Luego la abadía no es tan misteriosa, pero sí es cierto que hay algunos detalles sospechosos. Y aquí lo dejo.
Esto es suficiente para saber que estamos ante una novela muy entretenida. Austen escribe con indudable arte, haciendo gala siempre de un enorme sentido del humor y de la ironía británica más clásica (incluso de vez en cuando hace guiños al lector dirigiéndose a él en primera persona, como diciendo "no olvides que esto no es más que una novela") y con habilidad en la trama pero, sobre todo, en la descripción de los pensamientos y los sentimientos de su protagonista. Nada que ver con las heroínas románticas, a las que ridiculiza contantemente, sino más bien con una chica de buen pasar que se ríe suavemente de su tiempo pero que no imagina otro mejor. Muy entretenida y muy agradable. (