jenkepesh 's review for:

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

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I don't quite know how it is that this is not listed among books I've read, for this must be the 7th or 8th time I read it. NA is a pretty lightweight book among Austen's finished work; the protagonist is surely the youngest and most naive. Her story seems less urgent than for any other of Austen's heroines, because she is simply on a fun summer visit with neighbors to Bath; Austen treats her like a kid on a lark, and when she returns home, she surely could go back to her previous life as the eldest of a slew of parson's children, happy and well-loved. (Fate intervenes.) Austen's narrative commentary is dry-witted throughout.