Chapters From Jane Austen Author:Jane Austen General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1889 Original Publisher: Lee and Shepard Subjects: Fiction / Classics Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy th... more »e General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: NORTHANGER ABBEY. DRAMATIS PERSONS. Mr. Alien,: A personage who appears but seldom in the story. He is represented as a sensible, intelligent man of middle life, and quite superior to his rather insipid wife. James Morland: Brother to Catherine Morland. An amiab'e young man who falls in love with Isabella Thorpe and is finally jilted by her. Captain Tiliiey: Eldest son of General Tilney. A young man often referred to in the coui'se of the story, but who plays no veiy prominent part. He does not seem to be endowed with any high principles, and succeeds very readily in disengaging the affections of Isabella Thorpe from John Morland and attaching them to himself. General Tilney: The owner of Northanger Abbey. A man of uncertain temper, who endeavors to foster an affection between his son Henry and Catherine Morland while he believes her to be an heiress. Discovering his mistake while she is visiting his daughter at Northanger Abbey, he in a fit of temper gives orders for her to leave at once. Rev. Henry Tilney: Second son of General Tilney. A young man of twenty-five, of a mildly satirical turn of mind, but sensible and good-natured. He falls in love with Catherine Morland, and eventually marries her. John Thorpe: Son of Mrs. Thorpe. ' A stout young man of middling height, who, with a plain face and ungraceful form, seemed fearful of being too handsome unless he wore the dress of a groom, and too much like a gentleman unless he were easy where he ought to be civil, and i...« less