title: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Vol. 2 (Emma / Northanger Abbey / Persuasion)
author:  Jane Austen 
description: "How Jane Austen can write!...She is a miniaturist, but never two-dimensional....All Jane Austen characters are ready for an extended life, for a life which the scheme of her books seldom requires them to lead, and that is why they lead their actual lives so satisfactorily."<br>--E. M. Forster
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  # NORTHANGER ABBEY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Jane Austen
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  by
  
  
  Jane Austen
  
  
  (1803)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### ADVERTISEMENT BY THE AUTHORESS, TO NORTHANGER ABBEY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  THIS little work was finished in the year 1803, and intended
  
  
  for immediate publication. It was disposed of to a bookseller,
  
  
  it was even advertised, and why the business proceeded
  
  
  no farther, the author has never been able to learn.
  
  
  That any bookseller should think it worth-while to
  
  
  purchase what he did not think it worth-while to publish
  
  
  seems extraordinary. But with this, neither the author
  
  
  nor the public have any other concern than as some
  
  
  observation is necessary upon those parts of the work
  
  
  which thirteen years have made comparatively obsolete.
  
  
  The public are entreated to bear in mind that thirteen
  
  
  years have passed since it was finished, many more
  
  
  since it was begun, and that during that period,
  
  
  places, mann