pinkmooon 's review for:

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
3.0

There's a bit early on where Austen quotes from several favourite poems of Catherine's, one of which is Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, and so it became one of my favourites as well. This is really an Austen I want to revisit when I've read Burney and Radcliffe, because I loved what aspects of the Gothic parody I could understand; the middle of the novel is 'standard' Austen, which, since this is an early novel, is something she does better elsewhere.