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  • Published: 1 October 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099511878
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $24.99

Northanger Abbey

  • Jane Austen




'Jane Austen is a genius, and Northanger Abbey is hugely underrated' Martin Amis

'Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire' J. K. Rowling

Catherine Morland is a young girl with a very active imagination. Her naivety and love of sensational novels lead her to approach the fashionable social scene in Bath and her stay at nearby Northanger Abbey with preconceptions that have embarrassing and entertaining consequences.

  • Published: 1 October 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099511878
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $24.99

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Praise for Northanger Abbey

Somebody reading over my shoulder refuses to believe that I found Northanger Abbey funnier than Catch 22, but I did. So there

Jenny Colgan

The most perfect artist among women, the writer whose books are immortal

Virginia Woolf

Jane Austen's lightest and most playful novel

Independent

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire

J.K. Rowling

Somebody reading over my shoulder refuses to believe that I found Northanger Abbey funnier than Catch 22, but I did. So there

Jenny Colgan

The most perfect artist among women, the writer whose books are immortal

Virginia Woolf

Jane Austen's lightest and most playful novel

Independent

Jane Austen shocks me. Beside her, Joyce seems innocent as grass

W.H. Auden