L'abbazia di Northanger
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Catherine Morland, la protagonista del romanzo, è invitata a trascorrere qualche giorno presso l’ex abbazia di Northanger, residenza della famiglia del giovane pastore anglicano con cui si è fidanzata, e che la crede una ricca ereditiera. Suggestionata dal luogo e ancor più dalle intense letture di romanzi dell’orrore all’epoca in gran voga, la giovane vive alterando banali eventi quotidiani alla luce di immaginarie atmosfere di terrore. Una serie di malintesi, frutto della sua fantasia sovreccitata, mette a repentaglio il rapporto sentimentale appena nato, pregiudicato anche dalla scoperta delle sue reali condizioni economiche. Celebrazione dei riti di iniziazione sociale della borghesia inglese di provincia a cavallo tra Sette e Ottocento, quest’opera della Austen non si esaurisce nella storia di una contrastata passione, ma rappresenta una sottile parodia del romanzo sentimentale, e soprattutto del romanzo gotico, che resta di grande attualità ancora oggi.
- ISBN: 8822781260
- Casa Editrice: Newton Compton
- Pagine: 192
- Data di uscita: 23-02-2024
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I don’t even know what to say. This book was such a flippin’ blast. https://emmareadstoomuch.wordpress.co... Okay, that’s a little bit of a lie. I know the most important thing I have to say. First and foremost: I’M IN LOVE WITH HENRY TILNEY. SO FUNNY, smart, handsome, owns a cute house, and dare I Leggi tutto
Jane Austen’s novels are just about romance and naïve women. There just another telling of boy meets girl in an uninspiring way with a few social issues thrown in. Well, ashamed as I am to admit it, that is what I used to believe in my woefully idiotic ignorance. How foolish of me. Now that I’ve act Leggi tutto
(2.5) Even knowing that this book was published after her death, that it was rewritten a few times and that it is meant as satiric take on the Gothic genre... I didn't really enjoy myself. Her writing is witty, the characters are as awful as she wanted to portray them but I didn't like the romance at Leggi tutto
Elizabeth may be the most beloved, & Emma may be the hated, and (of course) Elinor is the most sensible , but I personally think Catherine is the most relatable. We can't all be as witty and perceptive as Lizzie, and we hopefully aren't as meddling and silly as Emma. But Catherine? Well, she's somewhe Leggi tutto
A creepy mansion ... Dark and stormy nights ... ... and Jane Austen just having fun with us. "Now I must give one smirk, and then we may be rational again." Seventeen year old Catherine Morland, as innocent and naïve a heroine as Austen ever created, with no particular distinguishing characteristics exc Leggi tutto
"The person, be it gentlemen or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." This is my third Austen novel: Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility being the first two, and when I reviewed the first two, I felt that I did not do justice to the author, mainly because Leggi tutto
Northanger Abbey is the shortest of Jane Austen's six major novels, and has a special place in many readers' hearts. In many ways it is not the tightly constructed witty sort of story we expect from this author, yet its spontaneity and rough edges prove to be part of its charm. Started when she was
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