Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon -

Jane Austen

Oxford University Press

2008

379 páginas

12h 38m

ISBN-13: 9780199535545

Northanger Abbey depicts the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical villains work their evil on forlorn heroines in isolated settings. What could be more remote from the uneventful securities of life in the midland counties of England? Yet as Austen brilliantly contrasts fiction with reality, ordinary life takes a more sinister turn, and edginess and circumspection are reaffirmed alongside comedy and literary burlesque. Also including Austen's other short fictions, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon, this valuable new edition shows her to be as innovative at the start of her career as at its close.

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4 (Muito bom)

Eu gostei bastante de Northanger Abbey (meu preferido de tudo que já li da Austen) e Lady Susan, mas nem um pouco de The Watsons e Sanditon. A edição é muito boa.