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Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons
From the author of Mansfield Park and Mummies…
NORTHANGER ABBEY AND ANGELS AND DRAGONS
Dragons in the skies of Regency England!
Gothic horrors collide with high satire in this elegant, hilarious, witty, insane, and unexpectedly romantic supernatural parody of Jane Austen’s classic novel.
Young and naive Catherine Morland is constantly surrounded by angels only she alone can see. Leaving her country home for the first time, to embark on a grand adventure that begins in fashionable Bath, our romantic heroine must not only decrypt the mystery of the Udolpho Code but win her true love Henry Tilney.
Meanwhile she is beset by all the Gothic horrors known to Impressionable Young Ladies — odious demons, Regency balls, elusive ghosts, pleasure excursions, temperature-changing nephilim, secret clues, ogre suitors, and a terrifying ancient Dragon who has very likely hidden a secret treasure hoard somewhere in the depths of Northanger Abbey.
Gentle Reader — this Delightful Illustrated Edition includes Scholarly Footnotes and Appendices.
Northanger Abbey
This is a new beautifully-designed edition of Jane Austen’s best-selling classic NORTHANGER ABBEY. Large 6×9 format, printed on high quality paper.
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen’s humor and the realism of her characters and plots are irresistible to regular readers like us, while her biting social commentary has cemented her historical importance among scholars and critics. Northanger Abbey is fundamentally a parody of Gothic fiction. Austen turns the conventions of eighteenth-century novels on their head by making her heroine a plain and undistinguished girl from a middle-class family, allowing the heroine to fall in love with the hero before he has a serious thought of her, and exposing the heroine’s romantic fears and curiosities as groundless. The novel also questions who can be trusted as a true companion and who might actually be a shallow, false friend. We may consider it to be the most funny and lighthearted of all her novels.
Jane Austen’s Works
In her short life Jane Austen wrote six novels; ‘Sense & Sensibility’, ‘Pride & Prejudice’, ‘Northanger Abbey’, ‘Mansfield Park’, ‘Emma’, and ‘Persuasion’. These well loved English classics may have once been regarded as the province of the literature student, but due to recent film and television productions they have gained mass following on both sides of the Atlantic.
This DVD explores the development of Jane Austen’s style, her bright sparkling wit and her unforgettable characters. See the places Jane wrote about as they are today, from the tranquility of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, to the hustle and bustle of London with its shops, theatres and Royal Palaces. Then step back into the world of Regency Society, preserved for all time in the work of Jane Austen.
Persuasion: An Annotated Edition
Published posthumously with Northanger Abbey in 1817, Persuasion crowns Jane Austen’s remarkable career. It is her most passionate and introspective love story. This richly illustrated and annotated edition brings her last completed novel to life with previously unmatched vitality. In the same format that so rewarded readers of Pride and Prejudice: An Annotated Edition, it offers running commentary on the novel (conveniently placed alongside Austen’s text) to explain difficult words, allusions, and contexts, while bringing together critical observations and scholarship for an enhanced reading experience. The abundance of color illustrations allows the reader to see the characters, locations, clothing, and carriages of the novel, as well as the larger political and historical events that shape its action.
In his Introduction, distinguished scholar Robert Morrison examines the broken engagement between Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth, and the ways in which they wander from one another even as their enduring feelings draw them steadily back together. His notes constitute the most sustained critical commentary ever brought to bear on the novel and explicate its central conflicts as well as its relationship to Austen’s other works, and to those of her major contemporaries, including Lord Byron, Walter Scott, and Maria Edgeworth.
Specialists, Janeites, and first-time readers alike will treasure this annotated and beautifully illustrated edition, which does justice to the elegance and depth of Jane Austen’s time-bound and timeless story of loneliness, missed opportunities, and abiding love.
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