One of six new delightful and collectible hardback editions from Penguin Classics publishing
to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th anniversary 'To look almost pretty is an acquisition of
higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a
beauty from her cradle can ever receive' 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.
