Saturday, April 24, 2010

This story is a bit older:

One of my very favorite books by Jane Austen is Northanger Abbey, named after one of the houses in the book. The first time I read it, my little brother protested that this was not a good Jane Austen title. If her other books were alliterations such as Pride and Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility, this book should be an alliteration too. And so he decided, without ever reading it, that the book should not be entitled Northanger Abbey, but Anger and Abstinence.
Haha... and so, in our house, the name stuck and that is still what it is referred to as.

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