Northanger Abbey Lady Susan (Two Volumes)
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"Northanger Abbey" and "Lady Susan" are two novels by Austen. "Northanger Abbey" uses an open narrator and an exposed authorial narrative voice to demonstrate authorial authority. It was the first novel Austen planned to publish, and the final draft was completed around 1797, when Austen was about 22 years old. In this novel, the author first showed his talents and his writing style took shape. He used "three or four families in a village" as the life background and narrated a marriage story in a very ironic way. Austen's works reflect the various social conditions at that time through the daily dialogue and communication of gentlemen and ladies, use humorous language to satirize the phenomena of profit-seeking and vanity, and use comic scenes to ridicule people's stupidity, selfishness, snobbery, blind self-confidence and other despicable and ridiculous weaknesses. "Lady Susan" is Austen's first completed novel. It tells an Austen-style story through intricate letters exchanged between relatives and friends, and in this way it takes the story mode of people talking about other people to the extreme. In the book, the attractive and cunning widow Lady Susan searches for a husband for herself and her daughter, which is very watchable.
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