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Written by Jane Austen - Audio book performed by Anna Massey - Unabridged Fiction - 6 CASSETTES - 7 hours, 45 minutes

Publisher, Audio Partners (December 1999)

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A Cover to Cover Unabridged Classic. Cover to Cover is a British Line of unabridged classic literature featuring the highest quality recordings at value prices in handsome, collectable retail packages. The entire line carries the exclusive Royal Warrant from his Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales. In addition, the British Spoken Word Publishing Association has honored Cover to Cover titles as the Best Unabridged Classic Productions for an unprecedented three years in a row.

"Anna Massey once again delights with her high intelligence as a reader and her sense of humor -- the pace of this reading also seems to me ideal." --Gramophone

"Anna Massey's quietly humorous tones are equally effective in bringing out the delicious satire on 'Gothic tales' in Northanger Abbey as well as the subtle irony of the last novel, Persuasion. Austen admirers will savor every word of these readings of the full unabridged text." --The Good Book Guide

Jane Austen's first novel, written in her early 20s, is a satire of the Gothic novels popular at this time. She pokes fun at the romantic follies of the genteel classes in their pursuit of love, marriage, and money. When Catherine Morland leaves her quiet, bookish, country life in Hampshire to enter the leisure society at Bath, she has high hopes for lots of shopping, dressing, taking tea, and dancing with fashionable gentlemen. Her imagination soars when she is invited to visit the mysterious Tilney family home, Northanger Abbey. Catherine becomes the heroine of her own Gothic novel while exploring this large, rambling house full of locked doors and secrets, enticed into a web of intrigue and romance. A Cover to Cover Unabridged Classic.

About the Author: Jane Austen (1775-1817) was the English writer who first gave the novel its distinctly modern character through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life. Austen created the comedy of manners in middle-class life in the England of her time in such novels as Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815), and Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (both published posthumously, 1817).

About the Performer: Anna Massey made her debut at The Cambridge Theater in The Reluctant Debutante. Her stage and screen credits include Rebecca, Hotel du Lac, and Angels and Insects.