Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon

New Edition

Jane Austen
Claudia L. Johnson, Edited by John Davie, and James Kinsley

Oxford World's Classics

• The best-value edition, combining Northanger Abbey with three minor works--two early, one late--highlighting Austen's originality across the full range of her career.
• New introduction by Claudia L. Johnson reassesses received opinion about Northanger Abbey at the level of style as well as theme, and addresses recent critics as well as long established ones.
• Reset text has crisper appearance.
• New, up-to-date bibliography, and new chronology by General Editor Vivien Jones (University of Leeds).
• New and extensive notes in particular draw attention to the many subtle parodies of the Gothic genre.
• Appendices on social rank and dancing further contextualize the works.

Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon

New Edition

Jane Austen
Claudia L. Johnson, Edited by John Davie, and James Kinsley

Oxford World's Classics

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Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon

New Edition

Jane Austen
Claudia L. Johnson, Edited by John Davie, and James Kinsley

Oxford World's Classics

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Lady Susan: "the most accomplished Coquette in England"

I congratulate you and Mr. Vernon on being about to receive into your family, the most accomplished Coquette in England. As a very distinguished Flirt, I have been always taught to consider her; but it has lately fallen in my way to hear some particulars of her conduct at Langford, which prove that she does not confine herself to that sort of honest flirtation which satisfies most people, but aspires to the more delicious gratification of making a whole family miserable.

Posted on June 3, 2016

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