Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen · language: en

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1803) Contents ADVERTISEMENT BY THE AUTHORESS, TO NORTHANGER ABBEY A NOTE ON THE TEXT 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.

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