Austen's witty exploration of the perils of mistaking fiction for reality During an eventful
season at Bath young naïve Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for
the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella who shares
Catherine's love of Gothic romance and horror and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney who
invite her to their father's mysterious house Northanger Abbey. There her imagination
influenced by novels of sensation and intrigue Catherine imagines terrible crimes committed by
General Tilney. With its broad comedy and irrepressible heroine this is the most youthful and
and optimistic of Jane Austen's works. For more than seventy years Penguin has been the
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