Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

The Penguin English Library Edition of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

'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.

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• ISBN10: 0141389427
• ISBN13: 9780141389424
• Publish Date: 29 November 2012 (first published 4 April 1817)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Imprint: Penguin Classics
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 256
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/isbn/9780141389424

Reviews

[sarahjay]

Every time Jane broke the 4th wall and talked to the reader was my favorite thing. This book is so sarcastic and funny. The ending could have used a little more (i.e. any) dialogue - it sort of felt like Jane was getting sick of writing about them and just summarized the basic events of the ending in a couple of pages. But overall I thoroughly enjoyed this. Very underrated.