Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (The Novels of Jane Austen, Handy Library Edition)

New York: Little, Brown & Company, 1930. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1892 date on copyright page, but likelier early 20th century. Lacks jacket, otherwise an excellent copy. 1930 Hard Cover. 308; 328 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles and decorations on spine, top edge gilt, engraved frontispiece. Two of Jane Austen's novels bound together in one volume. Includes: Northanger Abbey; Persuasion. Northanger Abbey: During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and horror, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father's mysterious house, Northanger Abbey. There, her imagination influenced by novels of sensation and intrigue, Catherine imagines terrible crimes committed by General Tilney. With its broad comedy and irrepressible heroine, this is the most youthful and and optimistic of Jane Austen's works. Persuasion: At twenty-­seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities. (Inventory #: 2350159)