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Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen, Janet Todd

This Gothic parody and social satire follows a naive young heroine navigating genteel society in late eighteenth-century England. The novel explores the material conditions of the era while contrasting everyday life with the sensational fiction of the period.

Accession 28715 ISBN 9781009432429 Publisher Cambridge University Press
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