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      The Borough Press

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

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      London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2014

      Introduction © Val McDermid 2014

      Jacket layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2014

      Design © Gray318

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      Source ISBN: 9780007517954

      Ebook Edition © 2014 ISBN: 9780007517961

      Version: 2020-11-18

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Volume II

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Chapter 26

       Chapter 27

       Chapter 28

       Chapter 29

       Chapter 30

       Chapter 31

       Classic Literature: Words and Phrases Adapted from the Collins English Dictionary

       Also by Jane Austen

       About the Publisher

       Introduction

      Northanger Abbey is the least conventional of Jane Austen’s six published novels. It’s also the least well known, which always surprises me because in some respects, it’s much closer to modern fiction than it is to the Victorian novels that succeeded it. Like the other five, it has at its heart a love story shaped by the conventions of the time. But unlike them, it goes beyond that to take a shrewd and unsparing look at the role fiction plays in our lives.

      This is the novel where Austen tells us what she really thinks about her companions in the literary landscape. She takes sideswipes at those who claim fiction is a waste of time. She lambasts historians

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