num_pages: 296
description: In Austen's words, "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." But fated she was, and Austen tells her tale deliciously. She spends the novel exploring decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers -- but none of them are what one would expect in a gothic potboiler, nor in a title of Radcliffe's. Catherine goes with family friends to the spa at Bath; and there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. That's where the book invokes the Horrid Props of a gothic novel: there are dreadful portents everywhere, even in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But none of the Horrors of Catherine's imagination can rival the more-mundane hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. . . .
language: English
title: Northanger Abbey
titlecomplete: Northanger Abbey
characters: John Thorpe, Eleanor Tilney, Isabella Thorpe, Catherine Morland, Mrs. Morland, Henry Tilney, Richard Morland, Captain Frederick Tilney, General Tilney, James Morland, Mrs. Thorpe
genres: Audiobook, Gothic, Romance, Fiction, Literature, Historical Fiction, Classics, Historical, 19th Century, British Literature
ratings_count: 384573
places: Somerset, England, Bath, Somerset, England, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, England
publisher: Wildside Pr