Northanger Abbey

During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive 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.

About the author

Jane Austen, the daughter of a clergyman, was born in Hampshire in 1775, and later lived in Bath and the village of Chawton. As a child and teenager, she wrote brilliantly witty stories for her family's amusement, as well as a novella, Lady Susan. Her first published novel was Sense and Sensibility, which appeared in 1811 and was soon followed by Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma. Austen died in 1817, and Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously in 1818.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Austen
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.11.2025
• EAN: 9780241804728
• ISBN: 978-0-241-80472-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 114 mm x 187 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Gothic, FICTION / Gothic, Narrative theme: Interior life, Bath, Narrative theme: Coming of age, 1714–1837 (Georgian period), Satirical fiction and parodies, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, FICTION / World Literature / American / 19th Century, Classic fiction: general and literary