Northanger Abbey (Bantam Classic)

ISBN: 0553211978

Author: Austen, Jane

Condition: Used

The earliest of her six major novels,NorthangerAbbey remained unpublished until after Jane Austens death. A deliciously witty satire of popular Gothic romances, it is perhaps Austens lightest, most delightful excursion into a young womans world. Catherine Morland, an unlikely heroine-unlikely because she is so ordinary-forsakes her English village for the pleasures and perils of Bath. There, among a circle of Austens wonderfully vain, dissembling, and fashionable characters, she meets a potential suitor, Henry Tilney. But with her imagination fueled by melodramatic novels, Catherine turns a visit to his home, Northanger Abbey, into a hunt for dark family secrets. The result is a series of hilarious social gaffes and harsh awakenings that for all of Austens youthful exuberance nevertheless conveys her mature vision of literature and life-and the consequences of mistaking one for the other.