About This Novel
"Northanger Abbey" is different from the other five Austen novels in that it uses an open narrator and an exposed authorial narrative voice, demonstrating the author's 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. They use humorous language to satirize the phenomena of profit-seeking and vanity. Through comic scenes, they mock people's stupidity, selfishness, snobbery, blind 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. This book tells the story of a widow, Lady Susan, who is looking for a husband for herself and her daughter. Lady Susan is a very attractive and cunning woman, which adds to the watchability of the story.
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