Northanger Abbey (Deseret Alphabet edition)

by Jane Austen

Overview

Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.

Northanger Abbey (1817) is Austen's first completed novel but not published until after her death. While it covers Austen's usual themes of class, love, and marriage, it is also a satire of the Gothic novels popular at the time, most notably The Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Uldopho (1794). The lead character-whom Austen explicitly names her "heroine" in the text-is a young, naïve seventeen-year-old who sees mystery and intrigue wherever she looks, except in her own love life.

This book is in the Deseret Alphabet, a phonetic alphabet for writing English developed in the mid-19th century at the University of Deseret (now the University of Utah).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781727671865
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	10/16/2018
Series:	Deseret Alphabet Classics , #69
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

Jane Austen (1775–1817) was an English author known primarily for her six major novels set among the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Considered defining works of the Regency Era and counted among the best–loved classics of English literature, Austen's books include Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. The latter two were published after her death. "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library." – Jane Austen

Date of Birth:

December 16, 1775

Date of Death:

July 18, 1817

Place of Birth:

Village of Steventon in Hampshire, England

Place of Death:

Winchester, Hampshire, England

Education:

Taught at home by her father