Northanger Abbey

During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences fashionable society for the first time. She is delight ed with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who introduces Catherine to the joys of Gothic romances, and sophisticated Henr y and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father?s house, Northanger Abbey. There, influenced by novels of horror and intrigue, Catherine comes to imagine terrible crimes committed by General Tilney, risking the loss of Henry?s affection, and must learn the di fference between fiction and reality, false friends and true. With its broad comedy and irrepressible heroine, Northanger Abbey is t he most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen?s works.This edition is based on the first edition of 1818, and includes a new chrono logy and additional suggestions for further reading.

• author: Jane Austen