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  • Published: 31 July 2007
  • ISBN: 9780553903966
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

Northanger Abbey

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)




Jane Austen's witty exploration of the perils of mistaking fiction for reality, now in a collectible Deluxe Edition celebrating the 250th anniversary of the author's birth

A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

Jane Austen’s renowned satire about a teenage girl who longs to explore the world and become the hero of her own story—with an introduction by Caroline Levander

“Jane Austen is the Rosetta stone of literature.”—Anna Quindlen

“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be a heroine.”

Thus begins the earliest of Jane Austen’s six major novels, Northanger Abbey, which remained unpublished until after Austen’s death in 1817. A deliciously witty satire of popular Gothic romances, it is perhaps Austen’s lightest, most delightful excursion into a young woman’s world.

Catherine Morland, an unlikely heroine—unlikely because she is so ordinary—forsakes her English village for the pleasures and perils of Bath. There, among a circle of Austen’s wonderfully vain, dissembling, and fashionable characters, she meets a potential suitor, Henry Tilney. But with her imagination fueled by melodramatic novels, Catherine turns a visit to his home, Northanger Abbey, into a hunt for dark family secrets. The result is a series of hilarious social gaffes and harsh awakenings that for all of Austen’s youthful exuberance nevertheless conveys her mature vision of literature and life—and the consequences of mistaking one for the other.

  • Published: 31 July 2007
  • ISBN: 9780553903966
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

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The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
Selected Poetry
On Sparta
Man and Superman
Saint Joan
Botchan
Kusamakura
Love
Annals
Selected Poems
Military Dispatches

About the author

Jane Austen

Jane Austen, the daughter of a clergyman, was born in Hampshire in 1775, and later lived in Bath and the village of Chawton. As a child and teenager, she wrote brilliantly witty stories for her family's amusement, as well as a novella, Lady Susan. Her first published novel was Sense and Sensibility, which appeared in 1811 and was soon followed by Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma. Austen died in 1817, and Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously in 1818.

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