num_pages: 254
description: An alternate cover edition can be found here.During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who introduces Catherine to the joys of Gothic romances, and sophisticated Henry 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 has to learn the difference between fiction and reality, false friends and true. With its broad comedy and irrepressible heroine, Northanger Abbey is the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen's works.
language: English
title: Northanger Abbey
titlecomplete: Northanger Abbey
characters: James Morland, Captain Frederick Tilney, Mrs. Morland, John Thorpe, Eleanor Tilney, Isabella Thorpe, Richard Morland, Mrs. Thorpe, Henry Tilney, General Tilney, Catherine Morland
genres: Historical, Literature, Audiobook, British Literature, Classics, Gothic, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 384412
places: Somerset, England, Gloucestershire, England, Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, England
publisher: Penguin Books