A young woman raised on Gothic novels enters Bath society and mistakes ordinary selfishness for deliciously dark danger.
Celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday with this beautiful gift edition of Northanger Abbey, complete with foiled covers, marbled endpaper, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and a silk ribbon.
Catherine Morland loves sensational Gothic novels, which make Bath society and a visit to Northanger Abbey feel rich with possible horrors. Her imagination, innocence and longing for adventure lead her to comic mistakes, false friendships and embarrassing suspicions. Henry Tilney may understand her better than anyone, but his father's ambitions soon threaten their happiness.
Austen's sharp, affectionate satire of Gothic fiction is also a sparkling...
Jane Austen, the daughter of a clergyman, was born in Hampshire in 1775, and later lived in Bath and the village of Chawton. As a child and teenager, she wrote brilliantly witty stories for her family’s amusement, as well as a novella, Lady Susan. Her first published novel was Sense and Sensibility, which appeared in 1811 and was soon followed by Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma. Austen died in 1817, and Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously in 1818.
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