The Jane Austen: Classic BBC Radio Productions: Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility

from xicanti

A young woman with a fondness for novels makes her first trip to Bath, where she encounters friendship, betrayal and love. This was Jane Austen's earliest completed novel, though it wasn't published until after her death. As a result, her aims are a little different than in her later books. With ...

from TadAD

How can one not enjoy a Gothic whose first page tells us that the father was "not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters" and that the mother "instead of dying in bringing [Catherine] into the world, as anybody might expect...lived on"? As a parody, I found it a little more ove...

from allureofbooks

I just re-read Northanger Abbey for the first time so that I could review it for Jane in June. I'm so glad I did! I loved it much more this time around then when I read it for the first time several years ago. It is much funnier and more entertaining then I remember it being. The ending is very r...

from ncgraham

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." If one were to take this sentence (made by Northanger Abbey's hero Henry Tilney) and replace the word "good" with its authoress' name, the statement would not become any less true. I should ma...

from TadAD

How can one not enjoy a Gothic whose first page tells us that the father was "not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters" and that the mother "instead of dying in bringing [Catherine] into the world, as anybody might expect...lived on"? As a parody, I found it a little more ove...