num_pages: 284
description: While enjoying a six weeks' stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. Thanks to a new literary diet of the sensational and the macabre, Catherine travels to Northanger Abbey fully expecting to become embroiled in a Gothic adventure of intrigue and suspense and, once there, soon begins to form the most gruesome and improbable theories about the exploits of its occupants. An early work, but published posthumously, Northanger Abbey is a satire on the Gothic mode typified by the novels of Ann Radcliffe, as well as a witty comedy of manners in the style of Jane Austen's later novels and, ultimately, an enchanting love story.
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: 384388
places: England, United Kingdom, Somerset, England, Bath, Somerset, England, Gloucestershire, England
publisher: Penguin Books