Jane Austen's witty exploration of the perils of mistaking fiction for reality now in a
collectible Deluxe Edition celebrating the 250th anniversary of the author's birth During an
eventful season at Bath young naïve Catherine Morland experiences fashionable society for the
first time both its pleasures and its pitfalls. 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 Cather learns the danger of an active imagination. With its broad
comedy and irrepressible heroine this is the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen’s
works. Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking
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