Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

During an eventful season in Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who introduces Catherine to the loys of Gothic romances, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father's mysterious house, Northanger Abbey. There, influenced by novels of horror and intrigue, Catherine comes to imagine terrible crimes committed by General Tilney, risking the loss of Henry's affection, and has to learn the difference between fiction and reality, false friends and true. With it broad comedy and irrepressible heroine, Northanger Abbey if the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen's works.