The first novel by the English writer Jane Austen 1775-1817 It was not published until after her death in 1818 To the authors well-known traditional ingredients and the moods of her protagonists she adds the parody of Gothic novels so fashionable at the time A story full of emotion and passion taken to the point of suspense a mark of that genre which would have pleased Cervantes and his immortal Quixote an admirer and staunch critic of cavalry no...