num_pages: 300
description: Catherine is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels but also to expose the horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects, Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.
language: English
title: Northanger Abbey
titlecomplete: Northanger Abbey
characters: Captain Frederick Tilney, John Thorpe, Eleanor Tilney, General Tilney, Mrs. Morland, Henry Tilney, Mrs. Thorpe, Catherine Morland, Richard Morland, James Morland, Isabella Thorpe
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, Gothic, British Literature, Historical, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, Audiobook
ratings_count: 384369
places: England, United Kingdom, Somerset, England, Bath, Somerset, England, Gloucestershire, England
publisher: Waking Lion Press