The story's heroine, seventeen year old Catherine Morland, is invited by her neighbours, the Allens, to accompany them to visit Bath for a number of weeks. While, initially, the excitement of experiencing such a place was dampened by her lack of other acquaintances, she is soon introduced to an intriguing young gentleman named Henry Tilney, though her attention was quickly taken upon meeting a young lady named Isabella Thorpe. Isabella tries to make a match between Catherine and her brother...
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1775-1817) was published after the author's death in (1818). The main character is Catherine Morland, a young heroine 17 year old who loves to read gothic novels. Whilst staying in Bath, she meets John Thorpe and Henry Tilney and is one day invited by Henry's father to his estate, Northanger Abbey. Catherine's love of gothic novels makes her unrealistic towards the world around her by envisioning life through fictional eyes and becomes...
In this spirited comedy of manners Catherine Morland, a plain, unspoiled small-town girl on holiday in Bath, meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, a handsome young clergyman. Henry's father, believing Catherine to be wealthy, invites her to be a guest at Northanger Abby, the family's country estate. Catherine, who has read too many Gothic romances and who is possessed of too vivid an imagination, views the abbey as a house of nightmarish horror — an aspect of the book...
To coincide with the launch of The Austen Project an ebook collection of Jane Austen’s timeless novels.‘Northanger Abbey! These were thrilling words, and wound up Catherine's feelings to the highest point of ecstasy.’Considered the most light-hearted and satirical of Austen’s novels, Northanger Abbey tells the story of an unlikely young heroine Catherine Morland. While staying in Bath, Catherine meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor who invite her to their family estate, Northanger...
La gran mansión de Netherfield Park, en la campiña inglesa, tiene como inquilino: el señor Charles Bingley, in joven rico atractivo y además¿ soltero Con la llegada de este buen partidose despiertan las ambiciones de las familias de todo el vecindario y la revolucion es singularmente notable en la casa familiar
Una historia que sigue al personaje principal, Elizabeth Bennet, a través de cuestiones de modales, moralidad, estatus y matrimonio. Viviendo en la campiña inglesa y sin grandes recursos, su padre debe casar a sus cinco exuberantes hijas.
Una historia que sigue al personaje principal, Elizabeth Bennet, a través de cuestiones de modales, moralidad, estatus y matrimonio. Viviendo en la campiña inglesa y sin grandes recursos, su padre debe casar a sus cinco exuberantes hijas.
Una historia que sigue al personaje principal, Elizabeth Bennet, a través de cuestiones de modales, moralidad, estatus y matrimonio. Viviendo en la campiña inglesa y sin grandes recursos, su padre debe casar a sus cinco exuberantes hijas.
Este ebook presenta «Orgullo y prejuicio», con un índice dinámico y detallado. Una de las obras maestras de la literatura inglesa de todos los tiempos y una de las obras esenciales en la difusión de la novela como género. Se publicó por primera vez el 28 de enero de 1813 como una obra anónima, sin que figurara el nombre de su autora. Su primera frase es, además, una de las más famosas en la literatura inglesa: «Es una verdad mundialmente reconocida que un hombre soltero, poseedor de una gran...