A story about this — 34 weeks ago
WORTH CONSUMING!
By all means read the introduction to this Oxford edition. I found myself snickering at some of the events in this book, especially near the end. Between Austen’s Northanger Abbey and this book, it’s been a surprise to me that “send-ups” were by no means a rarity in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. When I was younger I wasn’t especially good at detecting irony. I guess I’m getting better at it.