Northanger Abbey

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Unique among Jane Austen's novels yet still displaying her masterful skill, this book is partly a witty parody of the popular and often poorly written Gothic novels of her day. The memorable characters and conflicts lead to Austen's typical implied insights about human nature and about life itself.

The story's unlikely heroine is Catherine Morland, a remarkably innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, a great reader of Gothic thrillers, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with terrible suspicions. What is the mystery surrounding the death of Henry's mother? Is the family concealing a terrible secret within the elegant rooms of the Abbey? Can she trust Henry, or is he part of an evil conspiracy? Catherine finds dreadful portents in the most prosaic events, until Henry persuades her to see the peril in confusing life with art.

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Format: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin
Language: English
Page Count: 320

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