Last night, I read the first chapter out loud to my wife and my 16 year-old daughter. They loved it! They were laughing at all the jokes, even the one who seldom laughs at books or films.In support of Northanger Abbey
Posted by Mark on January 07, 1998 at 10:26:23:
Last night, I read the first chapter out loud to my wife and my 16 year-old daughter. They loved it! They were laughing at all the jokes, even the one who seldom laughs at books or films.
I was struck with the fact that even in this, arguably Jane Austen's least polished novel, there is a air of timelessness. She still is writing about people as they really are. You could probably take NA and place it into a modern setting without changing hardly anything. Just morphe things into their modern equivalent (Thorpe's carriage becomes a sports car, for example), and away you go. I can't think of any detail that could not be so dealt with, can you?
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