Jane Austen, author of the book North Abbey, is quite different from most classics, both British and international. This is due to the fact that she had a unique gift - to write about what is happening in everyday life, but she did it in such a way that readers literally absorbed her works. It began its activities in the early 19th century and enriched the old genres of classical literature with feminine grace, wisdom and depth of judgment. In addition to everything else, she managed to move away from monumentality and old prosaic canons.
“Northanger Abbey” is a story of amazing, gentle and even somewhat naive love, but in combination with sparkling humor. That is why the book attracts not only the female half of readers, but also the male. In addition, it is full of adventures and various mysterious situations, which, of course, have a rather ridiculous concept. In principle, when the reader is familiar with Jane, he should already get used to the humor in her serious works, since she cannot do without him.
A distinctive feature of the book “Northanger Abbey” can be called the fact that the main character plays a great role in reading. That is, there are other additional novels in the Gothic style, and they have a significant impact on Katherine. Therefore, if you remove them from the work, then it itself will disappear. In fact, we can say that the author describes all the dangers that literature itself is fraught with. Apparently, such a contradiction did not bother the writer at all. Moreover, when the future classic manages to skillfully ironize over literature, reading becomes as exciting as possible. One thing is for sure, no matter what high standards the author sets, he managed to achieve them.
In fact, the novel “Northanger Abbey” was written at a time when the fashion for all sorts of horrors and secrets, as well as Gothic novels , had just begun . Austin tried to create her own masterpiece, but at the same time she did not want to give up her positions to other authors who did not depart from the popular genres of that time. And she managed to put fashionable horrors into a love story close to her, without which no decent English castle should do.
On the example of the book “Northanger Abbey”, Jane Austen was able to prove to the world that real masterpieces of literature never go out of style, do not become obsolete. Today you can find a lot of people who could compare themselves with the heroes of this novel, compare various everyday situations and experience difficulties with humor, which, in principle, the writer tried to teach her readers. And for two centuries now, both children and adults have been happy to experience part of the life of Katherine and the people who surround her.
Thus, Northanger Abbey is a book that you want to read even if it is classical and studied in British schools. There is no more serious and dramatic novel that would be so expertly drawn through a veil of irony and real English humor. And if some book lover has not yet had time to enjoy the satire and mischief of Miss Austin, then he can only be envied, because he has a whole history of an old English castle with its residents and guests.