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   This playful short novel is the one which most resembles Jane Austen's Juvenilia. It is the story of the unsophisticated and sincere Catherine Morland on her first trip away from home, for a stay in Bath. There she meets the entertaining Henry Tilney; later, on a visit to his family's house (the "Northanger Abbey" of the title) she learns to distinguish between the highly charged calamities of Gothic fiction and the realities of ordinary life (which can also be distressing in their way). Like Jane Austen's Love and Freindship, this book makes fun of the conventions of many late 18th century literary works, with their highly wrought and unnatural emotions; some of this humor derives from the contrast between Catherine Morland and the conventional heroines of novels of the day.

Additional resources: Molland, Wikipedia


Volume I

Chapter I (1) MP3 files - Catherine is invited to Bath by the Allens
Chapter II (2) MP3 files - Catherine and the Allens arrive in Bath and attend the Upper Rooms
Chapter III (3) MP3 files - Enter the Hero
Chapter IV (4) MP3 files - Catherine and Mrs. Allen meet Mrs. Thorpe and her daughters at the Pump Room
Chapter V (5) MP3 files - Catherine and Isabella grow closer; Jane Austen's famous "defense of the novel"
Chapter VI (6) MP3 files - Catherine and Isabella at the Pump Room; Isabella lists "The Northanger Canon"
Chapter VII (7) MP3 files - Catherine and Isabella meet James Morland and John Thorpe
Chapter VIII (8) MP3 files - Catherine dances with John Thorpe at the Upper Rooms, meets Henry Tilney and his sister
Chapter IX (9) MP3 files - Catherine goes driving with John Thorpe
Chapter X (10) MP3 files - Catherine meets Eleanor Tilney at the Pump Room; Henry compares dancing and marriage
Chapter XI (11) MP3 files - Catherine goes driving with John Thorpe despite being engaged to walk with the Tilneys
Chapter XII (12) MP3 files - Catherine calls on Eleanor to apologize; later, she meets Henry at the theatre
Chapter XIII (13) MP3 files - Isabella, John, and James try to get Catherine to go to Clifton with them; Catherine meets General Tilney
Chapter XIV (14) MP3 files - The walk around Beechen Cliff
Chapter XV (15) MP3 files - Isabella and James are engaged


Volume II

Chapter I (16) MP3 files - Captain Tilney comes to Bath, dances with Isabella
Chapter II (17) MP3 files - Catherine is invited to Northanger Abbey
Chapter III (18) MP3 files - Catherine and Isabella meet Captain Tilney at the Pump Room
Chapter IV (19) MP3 files - Catherine and Henry discuss Isabella's behaviour with Captain Tilney
Chapter V (20) MP3 files - Catherine and the Tilneys travel to Northanger Abbey; Henry's parody of a Gothic novel
Chapter VI (21) MP3 files - Catherine inspects some mysterious pieces of furniture at the Abbey
Chapter VII (22) MP3 files - General Tilney and Eleanor give Catherine a tour of the Abbey
Chapter VIII (23) MP3 files - Catherine becomes suspicious about Mrs. Tilney's death
Chapter IX (24) MP3 files - Henry finds Catherine near his mother's room
Chapter X (25) MP3 files - Catherine receives a letter from James
Chapter XI (26) MP3 files - Catherine calls on Henry at his house in Woodston
Chapter XII (27) MP3 files - Catherine receives a letter from Isabella
Chapter XIII (28) MP3 files - Catherine leaves Northanger Abbey
Chapter XIV (29) MP3 files - Catherine arrives in Fullerton
Chapter XV (30) MP3 files - Henry comes to Fullerton
Chapter XVI (31) MP3 files - In which we hasten together to perfect felicity


 

 
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