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Northanger Abbey depicts the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical villains work their evil on... Read Full Overview

'...in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or magnified his cruelty.'Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader... Read Full Overview

Northanger Abbey depicts the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical villains work their evil on... Read Full Overview

The earliest of Jane Austen's great comedies on female enlightenment, Northanger Abbey is a satire on the excesses of the Gothic novel, as well as a look into larger moral, philosophical and social issues of the day. This collection also includes the epistolary novel, Lady Susan,... Read Full Overview

The earliest of Jane Austen's great comedies on female enlightenment, Northanger Abbey is a satire on the excesses of the Gothic novel, as well as a look into larger moral, philosophical and social issues of the day. This collection also includes the epistolary novel, Lady Susan,... Read Full Overview

Jane Austen's first novel tells the story of Catherine Morland, the very ideal of a nice girl. But her na?ve heroine is also in possession of an overactive imagination, fueled by her obsession with gothic novels. When Catherine meets Henry Tilney, she's instantly smitten. But... Read Full Overview