Northanger Abbey

The young, imaginative Catherine Morland, her head full of the Gothic novels she adores, visits the fashionable town of Bath and then the mysterious Northanger Abbey, where she lets her romantic fancies run wild and mistakes ordinary life for the stuff of horror fiction. Austen affectionately parodies the sensational novels of her day while telling a warm coming-of-age story about learning to tell imagination from reality—and finding real love. Sparkling with wit and gentle irony, Northanger Abbey is Austen’s playful send-up of the Gothic craze and a delightful introduction to her incomparable comedy of manners.