Catherine Morland, fille d'un riche pasteur, s'éprend d'Henry Tilney. Le père de ce dernier, le général Tilney, l'invite à passer quelques semaines chez eux dans une demeure médiévale. Catherine, passionnée par les romans gothiques, croit découvrir les preuves d'un crime affreux commis par le général. Le second texte, écrit à l'âge de 17 ans, est une parodie de roman sentimental. ©Electre 2025
JANE AUSTEN (1775-1817)
Northanger Abbey
"Northanger Abbey ! - These were thrilling words, and wound up Catherine's feelings to the highest point of extasy. Her grateful and gratified heart could hardly restrain its expressions within the language of tolerable calmness. To receive so flattering an invitation ! To have her company so warmly solicited ! Every thing honourable and soothing, every present enjoyment, and every future hope was contained in it; and her acceptance, with only the saving clause of papa and mamma's approbation was eagerly given."
Taken to Bath for her coming out season, Catherine Morland meets Henry Tilney. Both are passionate readers of Gothic novels. Invited to Northanger Abbey, Tilney's family estate, how could she refuse ? An abbey ! Ruins, locked doors, and forbidden corridors...
In this early novel published with Persuasion after Austen's death, reality and fiction blend-to the reader's delight.
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Love and Freindship
A brilliant parody of the sentimental novel, written when she was seventeen years old, Love and Freindship is an early confirmation of Austen's gift for irony Published here with the author's original spelling.
Paru le : 22/01/2005
Thématique : Littérature Anglo-Saxonne Littérature anglo saxonne classique en VO
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Jane Austen
Éditeur(s) :
Zulma
Collection(s) : Zulma classics
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : Non précisé.
EAN13 : 9782843042829
Reliure : Broché
Pages : 254
Hauteur: 19.0 cm / Largeur 13.0 cm
Épaisseur: 1.8 cm
Poids: 230 g
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