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Published: 7 January 2013
ISBN: 9780141389424
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
RRP: $26.00

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Northanger Abbey

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Jane Austen

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Mighty Ape

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library

'To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive'

During an eventful season at Bath, young, naïve 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.

Published: 7 January 2013
ISBN: 9780141389424
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
RRP: $26.00