Track Chapter Length
01 Chapter 01 9:17
02 Chapter 02 12:14
03 Chapter 03 10:05
04 Chapter 04 7:29
05 Chapter 05 7:17
06 Chapter 06 10:02
07 Chapter 07 15:39
08 Chapter 08 15:09
09 Chapter 09 17:32
10 Chapter 10 21:07
11 Chapter 11 16:41
12 Chapter 12 10:44
13 Chapter 13 16:47
14 Chapter 14 18:52
15 Chapter 15 17:31
16 Chapter 16 15:05
17 Chapter 17 7:47
18 Chapter 18 11:04
19 Chapter 19 8:40
20 Chapter 20 17:36
21 Chapter 21 15:59
22 Chapter 22 18:20
23 Chapter 23 13:49
24 Chapter 24 15:31
25 Chapter 25 15:51
26 Chapter 26 12:41
27 Chapter 27 6:46
28 Chapter 28 18:45
29 Chapter 29 17:06
30 Chapter 30 15:21
31 Chapter 31 6:43



Notes
Running Time: 7 hours 5 minutes
Read by: Elizabeth Klett
Book Coordinator: Elizabeth Klett
Meta Coordinator: Karen Savage
Proof Listener: Ans Wink

Artwork
Cover: Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh,South facade.Photograph by Supergolden
DVD Inset: Colorized version of the posthumous engraving of Austen published in the 1869-70 Memoir
DVD Insert: Tinted Line Drawing by H.M. Brock for Northanger Abbey, ch.5 : Catherine and Isabella were always arm in arm when they walked. 1898.

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Northanger Abbey is one of the early novels of Jane Austen, the first to be submitted for publication. It tells the story of Catherine Morland, the passably attractive seventeen-year old daughter of a clergyman with a comfortable income and his wife. She leads an orderly and ordinary life, but has a penchant for the gothic novels of the day and a lively imagination to go with it. She is invited by a family friend to visit Bath, and there meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to stay at Northanger Abbey, the family estate. Catherine’s imagination has a field day during her holiday, filling the novel with the clichés of the gothic genre: ruined castles, secret notes, locked chests in hidden rooms, and the obligatory tyrannical father. While Catherine finds portentous horrors lurking in every quotidian event, Austen skewers the horrors and hypocrisy of the polite society of her so-called friends.

Originally entitled Susan, Northanger Abbey was written in 1798-1799, then revised for publication in 1803, when it was sold for the princely sum of L10 to a London bookseller, who subsequently decided not to publish it and sold it back to her brother for the same price. Austen revised it again shortly before her death in 1817, changing the title to Catherine. Her brother Henry arranged for its publication after her death, and it was published in December 1817 along with Persuasion under the title Northanger Abbey. (Summary by Michael Hogan)


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EAN - DVD case 0684758936066
EAN - CD jacket 0686175923230
Media MP3 CD
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Author Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
Year 1818
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Read by Elizabeth Klett
Length 7 hours 3 minutes
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