num_pages: 236
description: Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of the initiation into life of its naïve but sweetly appealing heroine, Catherine Morland, a willing victim of the contemporary craze for Gothic literature who is determined to see herself as the heroine of a dark and thrilling romance.When Catherine is invited to Northanger Abbey, the grand though forbidding ancestral seat of her suitor, Henry Tilney, she finds herself embroiled in a real drama of misapprehension, mistreatment, and mortification, until common sense and humor—and a crucial clarification of Catherine’s financial status—puts all to right. Written in 1798 but not published until after Austen’s death in 1817, Northanger Abbey is characteristically clearheaded and strong, and infinitely subtle in its comedy.Review taken from Google Books
language: English
title: Northanger Abbey
titlecomplete: Northanger Abbey
characters: Mrs. Morland, Isabella Thorpe, Eleanor Tilney, Captain Frederick Tilney, Richard Morland, Mrs. Thorpe, John Thorpe, Catherine Morland, James Morland, General Tilney, Henry Tilney
genres: Classics, British Literature, Historical, Gothic, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Audiobook, 19th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 384434
places: Bath, Somerset, England, England, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, Somerset, England
publisher: Everyman Ltd