Northanger-Abbey. This re-read with the Pemberlittens was fun. I actually very much enjoyed this read and it may take over my favorite Austen spot. Henry Tileny’s Diary is an offshoot retelling type book in honor of Northanger-Abbey. It was a lot of fun to read. These reads took up November and December/January. Pride and Prejudice took up September and October. Next up is Mansfield Park.
Northanger-Abbey.
During an eventful season at Bath, young, naïve Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine’s love of Gothic romance and horror, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father’s mysterious house, Northanger Abbey. There, her imagination influenced by novels of sensation and intrigue, Catherine imagines terrible crimes committed by General Tilney. With its broad comedy and irrepressible heroine, this is the most youthful and and optimistic of Jane Austen’s works.
Henry Tilney’s Diary
A charming retelling of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey–a tale of gothic misunderstandings through Henry Tilney’s eyes…
At the age of four and twenty, Henry is content with his life as a clergyman, leaving his older brother Frederick to inherit Northanger Abbey. But General Tilney is determined to increase the family’s means by having all three of his children marry wealthy partners.
During a trip to Bath, Henry meets the delightful Miss Catherine Morland and believes he may have found the woman he’s been looking for, although she has no great fortune. When the General takes an unusual liking to Catherine and invites her to visit the Abbey, Henry is thrilled. But just as in the Gothic novels Henry loves, not everything is as it seems…
