Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

Marilyn Butler (Notes)

'Jane Austen is a genius, and Northanger Abbey is hugely underrated' Martin Amis

With its irrepressible heroine and playful literary games, Northanger Abbey is the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen's novels. It tells the story of young, impressionable Catherine Morland, whose first experience of fashionable society introduces her to the thrills of Gothic romances, and to the sophisticated Tilneys, who invite her to their family home, Northanger Abbey. But there, influenced by novels of horror and intrigue, Catherine begins to think that terrible crimes are being committed, and her imagination threatens to run away with her.

Edited with an Introduction by MARILYN BUTLER

• ISBN10: 0141439793
• ISBN13: 9780141439792
• Publish Date: 27 March 2003 (first published 4 April 1817)
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 10 March 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Imprint: Penguin Classics
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 320
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780141439792

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.