Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
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Northanger Abbey

Author: Jane Austen

Narrator: Catherine Bilson, Terah Tucker, Graham Scott, Linda Barrans, Denis Daly, various narrators

Unabridged: 8 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/11/2023

Synopsis

Northanger Abbey is the earliest of Jane Austen’s mature novels. Although scholarly opinion is that the book was actually completed in the late 1790s, it was not published until after the author’s death in 1817.The plot follows the usual trajectory of a young girl falling in love and the relationship becoming compromised by unforeseen circumstances. In this case, Austen’s heroine is a naïve country girl, Catherine Morland, who has an addiction to reading the Gothic horror novels which were so popular in the Regency period. When she is invited to stay at the family seat of her love interest and discovers it to be a vast and ancient castle, her romantic imagination runs riot. What secrets lie hidden in this vast pile over which the widowed head of the house exercises an iron control?

About Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775–18 July 1817) was an English novelist, author of Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and (posthumously) Persuasion and Lady Susan. 

About Terah Tucker

Terah Tucker is an accomplished creative professional with experience in audiobook narration, voice acting, media production, live broadcasting, music composition and songwriting, and live performance. 

About Graham Scott

Graham Scott is a narrator and voice actor based in the UK. As well as solo performances of works by authors including PG Wodehouse, Charles Dickens, R Austin Freeman, Dorothy L. Sayers, Jules Verne, Anna Katherine Green, Joseph Conrad, GK Chesterton, and John Buchan, Graham is also a regular performer in group productions with both Voices of Today and the Online Stage. Website: www.GrahamScottAudio.com

About Linda Barrans

Linda Barrans is a British narrator with a fondness for Jane Austen and Shakespeare. She wrote the Sam the Sheep books to make positive use of the time during COVID lockdown, and to give herself and her friend Cate Barratt a modern piece to record together.

About Denis Daly

Denis Daly is an audiobook narrator and codirector of Voices of Today, an Australian spoken word production house.

Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on December 15, 2023

I don’t even know what to say. This book was such a flippin’ blast. [URL not allowed] Okay, that’s a little bit of a lie. I know the most important thing I have to say. First and foremost: I’M IN LOVE WITH HENRY TILNEY. SO FUNNY, smart, handsome, owns a cute house, and dare I......more

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on February 13, 2016

Jane Austen’s novels are just about romance and naïve women. There just another telling of boy meets girl in an uninspiring way with a few social issues thrown in. Well, ashamed as I am to admit it, that is what I used to believe in my woefully idiotic ignorance. How foolish of me. Now that I’ve act......more

Goodreads review by Emily on September 02, 2021

(2.5) Even knowing that this book was published after her death, that it was rewritten a few times and that it is meant as satiric take on the Gothic genre... I didn't really enjoy myself. Her writing is witty, the characters are as awful as she wanted to portray them but I didn't like the romance at......more

Goodreads review by Anne on August 02, 2024

Elizabeth may be the most beloved, & Emma may be the hated, and (of course) Elinor is the most sensible, but I personally think Catherine is the most relatable. We can't all be as witty and perceptive as Lizzie, and we hopefully aren't as meddling and silly as Emma. But Catherine? Well, she's somewhe......more

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on January 28, 2021

A creepy mansion ... Dark and stormy nights ... ... and Jane Austen just having fun with us. "Now I must give one smirk, and then we may be rational again." Seventeen year old Catherine Morland, as innocent and naïve a heroine as Austen ever created, with no particular distinguishing characteristics exc......more

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