Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire' J. Her naivety and love of sensational novels lead her to approach the fashionable social scene in Bath and her stay at nearby Northanger Abbey with preconceptions that have embarrassing and entertaining consequences.

Produktdetails

• Vintage Classics
• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 603503
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 131mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 186g
• ISBN-13: 9780099511878
• ISBN-10: 0099511878
• Artikelnr.: 23590755

Autorenporträt

Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16th December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath and then to Chawton in Hampshire. She wrote from a young age and Pride and Prejudice was begun when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressions. It was initially rejected by the published she submitted it too and eventually published in 1813 after much revision. All four of her novels published in her lifetime were published anonymously. Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published posthumously.

Jane Austen, gemalt von ihrer Schwester Cassandra, Ausschnitt

Rezensionen

Somebody reading over my shoulder refuses to believe that I found Northanger Abbey funnier than Catch 22, but I did. So there Jenny Colgan