Northanger Abbey

The Northanger Abbey (English: Northanger Abbey ) is a novel by the English novelist Jane Austen. It was written 1798-1803 and published in December 1817. It is a satire on Omane showers, which were very popular in Jane Austen's time. He is also a coming of age novel and like all Jane Austen's novels a love story.

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Seventeen year old Catherine Morland, the daughter of a clergyman with " a considerable fortune " lives with her parents and nine siblings in a small village. Repeats the author explains that Catherine is not suitable for various really compelling reasons for heroine. Nevertheless, Jane Austen made ​​it so. One day Catherine gets the opportunity with a friend of the family to travel to Bath. You like to take this opportunity and soon after it is in the spa town of Bath. At first she enjoys it only moderately, since neither she nor where she lives Mrs. Allen, the time in Bath over, knows someone there. But she's lucky, at a ball, she meets a certain Henry Tilney. He is an amusing young gentleman of about twenty-four years. It carries with it the animated conversations until the evening ends. Soon after, she only for meeting him again alive, not realizing that he has left Bath for a week. At one of those searching for Mr. Tilney she meets Miss Thorpe, whose mother went to school with Mrs. Allen. Between the eldest Miss Thorpe and Catherine developed a close friendship, which is favored among other things, that Miss Thorpe's brother John is friends with Catherine's brother James developed. Soon crystallized out that Mr. Thorpe seems to be very interested in Catherine, who, having once looked behind his boastful nature, no longer has any interest in him. James and Isabella, the eldest Miss Thorpe, on the other hand seems to combine an intimate affection. At a ball, to which it is accompanied by John Thorpe, Catherine sees Mr. Tilney again and learns to know his sister Eleanor. The two women become friends soon.

Between James and Isabella, it even comes to engagement, so it makes Catherine worried that Isabella after the departure of her brother with the older brother of Tilneys, Frederick, flirting. But since it is invited by Eleanor and her father, General Tilney, to the family estate Northanger Abbey, she can no longer take care of it. In Northanger Catherine spent happy days, and the love between her and Henry gets deeper. This time is disturbed by the news that Isabella was betrothed to Frederick, James has therefore abandoned. While it is between James and Isabella finally, could otherwise engaged Isabella but did not.

Terribly also the way Catherine Northanger must leave: they will be thrown out by the General, even though he previously a marriage between Catherine and Henry did not seem averse. A few days after Catherine's arrival with her parents to this misconception clears. Henry Tilney has traveled to Catherine to speak with her. During a walk they declare their love and get engaged. Henry also clears up everything. John Thorpe had Henry's father regarding the assets of the Morland family lied: he had any interest in Catherine, he lied to the family rich and later destitute. The General thought he was deceived by Catherine nauseous and threw them out.

Soothes of Eleanor's marriage to a viscount finally he given consent to the marriage of Catherine and Henry, who then also takes place.

Expenditure

  • Northanger Abbey. A Norton Critical Edition. Edited by Susan Fraiman. Oxford 2004. ISBN 978-0-393-97850-6
  • Northanger Abbey. Edited by Marilyn Butler. Penguin Classics. ISBN 978-0-14-143979-2
  • Northanger Abbey. Übers by Sabine Roth. Munich: dtv 2012 ISBN 978-3-423-14164-2.
  • The Northanger Abbey. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Transl. by Margarete Rauchenberger. Frankfurt: Insel Verlag ISBN 978-3-458-32631-1
  • Northanger Abbey. Übers of Ursula and Christian Grawe. Stuttgart: Reclam -Verl. ISBN 978-3-15-020061-2
  • Northanger Abbey. Novel. Übers by Andrea Ott. Zurich: Manesseplatz ET 2008 ISBN 978-3-7175-2092-4.

Films

  • Northanger Abbey (1986 TV Movie )
  • Northanger Abbey (2007, TV)

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  • Literary work
  • Literature ( English )
  • Novel, epic
  • Literature (19th century)
  • Work of Jane Austen
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