Austen's witty exploration of the perils of mistaking fiction for
reality
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.
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