Northanger Abbey - Couverture souple

Austen, Jane

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0460010255 ISBN 13 : 9780460010252

Editeur : Littlehampton Book Services Ltd

Synopsis

This volume represents the earlier and the later Jane Austen. Northanger Abbey belongs to the former period; Persuasion was her last novel.
The spur to the writing of Northanger Abbey was the existence of novels like The Mysteries of L'dolpho by Mrs Radcliffe which had set a fashion. They were full of Gothic qualities, of mystery and suspense, set in old castles amidst gloomy scenes that accentuated the 'horrors'. Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey gently satirized this class of fiction and gave us a delightful heroine in consequence: a creature of radiance who tries to interpret life by false romantic associations until disillusioned by the hero.
By the time Jane Austen wrote Persuasion the humour had become more studied, the mood autumnal. Edmund Blunden wisely observed that the novelist could not have depicted an Anne Elliot here without being an Anne herself at one time or another. Persuasion is the 'most beautiful and candid anatomy of woman's love'. It also reveals in its pages a deeper note than is sounded in any of the other books; giving more than a passing hint of personal grief and loneliness. ' We may look through the happy ending of Anne's story at the tears of the authoress.'
There are scenes in Lyme Regis of an engaging beauty and open-air freshness, matched with the formal splendours of Kellynch Hall in Somersetshire, where Sir Walter lived ' a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one'.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Webster's paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-Hungarian thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen was edited for three audiences. The first includes Hungarian-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL� or TOEIC� preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or Hungarian speakers enrolled in English speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in Hungarian in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement� (AP�) or similar examinations. By using the Webster's Hungarian Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in Hungarian or English.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0460010255
• ISBN 13: 9780460010252
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible