{"product_id":"northanger-abbey","title":"Northanger Abbey","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003enew edition of Jane Austen's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNorthanger Abbey, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eoriginally published posthumously in 1818. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNorthanger Abbey \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis the story of seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, one of ten children of a country clergyman, whose wild imagination and excessive fondness for Gothic novels (especially Ann Radcliffe's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMysteries of Udolpho\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) has skewed her worldview and interactions with others to great comic effect. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFundamentally a parody of the Gothic fiction that was so popular in Austen's formative years, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNorthanger Abbey \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a uniquely significant work, in that it shows Austen's departure from those conventions and tropes -- featuring three dimensional heroines, who were not perfect people, but flawed, rounded characters who behaved naturally and not just as the novel's plot demanded. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45141290123564,"sku":"","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/danebooksandgifts.myshopify.com\/products\/northanger-abbey","provider":"Dane Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}