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  • Published: 2 December 2025
  • ISBN: 9780143138723
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $32.99

Northanger Abbey

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

  • Jane Austen




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 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

During an eventful season at Bath, young, naïve Catherine Morland experiences fashionable society for the first time, both its pleasures and its pitfalls. 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, Cather learns the danger of an active imagination. With its broad comedy and irrepressible heroine, this is the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen’s works.

Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

  • Published: 2 December 2025
  • ISBN: 9780143138723
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $32.99

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