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  • Published: 1 September 1985
  • ISBN: 9780553211979
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $12.99

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

The earliest of her six major novels, NorthangerAbbey remained unpublished until after Jane Austen’s death. 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: 1 September 1985
  • ISBN: 9780553211979
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $12.99

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Emma
Persuasion
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
On Sparta
Love
Annals
Military Dispatches

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

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