NORTHANGER ABBEY by JANE AUSTEN
Intro by Margaret Drabble
The novel is the coming of age story of Catherine Morland who is taken to the fashionable resort of Bath with her friends the Allens. While in Bath, she meets Henry Tilbey and his sister Eleanor. The Tilneys invite Catherine to Northanger Abbey, the Tilney's family estate. Catherine, an avid reader of Gothic novels, soon becomes obsessed with the thought that possible atrocities are going on at the abbey.
Northanger Abbey was one of Austen's earliest novels, written in 1798, but it was not published until after Austen's death. You can see the foundation of the subtle situational humor of Emma, but this is laugh-out-loud funny, especially if you're familiar with the conventions of Gothics. If Catherine were a modern character, she would be an emo teenager with an overactive imagination. This is a jewel!
Used paperback in above-average condition. Actual book pictured.
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