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Northanger Abbey (version 4) by Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey (version 4) by Jane Austen

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 If it is a truth universally acknowledged that a good-looking girl cannot fail of attracting a clever young man does it follow that the reverse is also true? If the man comes of a terrifyingly dysfunctional family and the girl in question likes to see spooks and horrors round every corner, yes. Morland by name, Lackland by nature, Catherine, not altogether addicted to the heroine role in general, finds this greatness thrust upon her in the (fortunately, principally financial) fantasies of her would-be inamorato's father, the General. When the General finds she is the artless, simple girl that she appears and not the creature of his frankly heartless imaginings of her, he thrusts her - but I leave the event to your fevered, no doubt Gothick, even, imagination to determine

A deliberate parody of the horrific strand in popular culture, as Jane Austen no doubt herself would observe if she could see the burgeoning cult of the Undead in Unliterary culture - It is as if Northanger Abbey had never been written! Hear it and laugh. - Summary by Tony AddisonCopyright Beauty_23 Art Literary History & Criticism
Episodes
  • Chapter 31

    Chapter 31
    Sep 9 2025
    10 mins
  • Chapter 30

    Chapter 30
    Sep 9 2025
    24 mins
  • Chapter 29

    Chapter 29
    Sep 9 2025
    26 mins
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