Northanger Abbey
NORTHANGER ABBEY 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, manners, books, and opinions have undergone considerable changes.
TO
MY MOTHER
PREFATORY NOTE
The Author takes pleasure in acknowledging his indebtedness to Mr. Lorin
F. Deland, of Boston, for the football play described in Chapter XV.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I.--HEROES IN MOLESKIN
II.--PAUL CHANGES HIS MIND
III.--IN NEW QUARTERS
IV.--NEIL MAKES ACQUAINTANCES
V.--AND SHOWS HIS METTLE
VI.--MILLS, HEAD COACH
VII.--THE GENTLE ART OF HANDLING PUNTS
VIII.--THE KIDNAPING
NORTHANGER ABBEY 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, manners, books, and opinions have undergone considerable changes.