I loved the screen
adaptation of this book, Austen’s first novel to be completed for publication
but published under her death.
I loved the traveling of Catherine Moorland to
Bath with the Allens where she met Henry Tilney and his sister and took a
liking to them. I was annoyed when John Thorpe, Catherine’s brother James’
friend, tried to spoil Cathy and Henry’s acquaintance, wanting to be with Cathy
as his sister, Isabella, was with James.
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It is the general story of a father
who wants his children to marry rich, and General Tilney, Henry’s father was
deceived by Mr Thorpe into believing that Catherine’s family was rich, as seen
from their connections with the Allens, he invited her to Northanger Abbey and
encouraged her to be near his son. Upon
finding out the truth about Catherine, General Tinley threw Catherine out of
his Abbey in the dead of the night where she had to travel, alone, back to her
family.
With Cathy away from Bath, Isabella deceives James with Henry’s
brother, Captain Tilney who then discarded her. She ached for Henry upon the
realisation that she had fallen in love with and as fate had it planned, Tinley
showed up at Cathy’s home. The book ends with Cathy and Henry married, as well
as Eleanor, Henry’s sister, also married to the man her father had not wanted
her to be with for a long time. It is a really delightful book and I recommend
it to anyone who loves classics.
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