书名：Northanger Abbey诺桑觉寺
作者：Jane Austen 

出版社名称：Alma Classics

出版时间：2017

语种：英语
ISBN：9781847496249

商品尺寸：12.9 x 2.1 x 19.8cm

包装：平装
页数：224（以实物为准）

Northanger Abbey《诺桑觉寺》是英国女作家简奥斯汀所创作的首部小说作品，但在其去世后才发表。书中，奥斯汀用犀利的语言和鲜明的人物形象，以一个普通家庭女孩的视角，向读者展现了19世纪上层社会的缩影。看似描述贵族的日常生活，实质上是对当时社会的一些讽刺。

推荐理由：

1.各大推荐书单榜上有名，值得文学爱好者收藏和研读；

2.简奥斯汀的第一部作品，语言鲜明，手法尖锐，是19世纪文学史的重要里程碑；

3.该书创作背景为英国社会转变时期，读者可从独特的视角了解当时的社会情形。

The most sprightly and satirical of Austen’s novels,Northanger Abbeywas written when the author was herself in her early twenties, and takes for its heroine seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, a spirited young woman preoccupied with the pleasures of dressing, dancing, and reading sensational novels. But when she visits Northanger Abbey, the ancestral home of handsome Henry Tilney, Catherine’s taste in books comes back to haunt her. The rambling house full of locked doors and the family’s mysterious history give rise to delightfully dreadful suspicions, and finally only Catherine’s sweet nature and good humor triumph over her susceptibility. A sly commentary on the power of literature as well as a cautionary tale about the perils of naïveté,Northanger Abbeyis a fresh and funny tale of one young woman receiving, as Margaret Drabble reveals in her illuminating introduction, “intensive instruction in the ways of the world.”

本书讲述家境小康的牧师女儿凯瑟琳天真可爱，在跟随邻居艾伦夫妇去巴思旅游时，结识了两对兄妹：家境富有的蒂尔尼兄妹正直而善解人意；家境平平的索普兄妹利欲熏心；凯瑟琳与蒂尔尼相爱，但索普为了把凯瑟琳追到手，同时把妹妹嫁给凯瑟琳的哥哥，耍了许多诡计，使蒂尔尼趋炎附势的父亲极力阻挠儿子的婚姻，并且毫不留情地将上门作客的凯瑟琳赶出家门。蒂尔尼向来尊重父亲，但在维护自己幸福的问题上没有退让，经过重重曲折后，终于和凯瑟琳喜结良缘。

《诺桑觉寺》与其他五部奥斯汀的长篇不同，采用了公开的叙述者和外露的作者型的叙述声音，展现了作者权威。

While enjoying a six weeks' stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. Thanks to a new literary diet of the sensational and the macabre, Catherine travels to Northanger Abbey fully expecting to become embroiled in a Gothic adventure of intrigue and suspense - and, once there, soon begins to form the most gruesome and improbable theories about the exploits of its occupants.An early work, but published posthumously, Northanger Abbey is a parody of the Gothic genre typified by the novels of Ann Radcliffe, as well as a witty comedy of manners in the style of Jane Austen's later novels and, ultimately, an enchanting love story.

Jane Austen简·奥斯汀（1775-1817），19世纪英国女性小说家。生于英国小乡镇史蒂文顿的一个牧师家庭，几乎从未接受过正规教育，但由于家庭文学空气熏陶而成为作家。其作品主要描绘她在狭小生活圈子里所熟悉的中产阶级的家庭生活，青年男女的恋爱婚姻及其心态，具有观察细致，人物刻画惟妙惟肖，评论尖刻等艺术特色。其一生共创作了六部小说，分别是《理智与情感》《傲慢与偏见》《曼斯菲尔德庄园》《爱玛》《诺桑觉寺》《劝导》。

Jane Austen began writing at a very early age, and went on to produce some of the greatest works of English literature, with Pride and Prejudice and Emma among her masterpieces. Her novels, brimming with wit and populated by unforgettable characters, serve as a trenchant satire on the pretensions and foibles of provincial society.