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  • Published: 14 December 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141197715
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $35.00

Northanger Abbey

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)




A sparkling literary satire and an Austen favourite, in a beautiful new clothbound edition

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

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: 14 December 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141197715
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $35.00

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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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Praise for Northanger Abbey

[Coralie Bickford-Smith's] recent work for Penguin Classics is...nothing short of glorious

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