Northanger Abbey

Young, impressionable Catherine Morland is delighted by her first experience of fashionable society, where she is introduced to the trills of Gothic romances, and to the sophisticated Tilneys, who invite her to their family home, Northanger Abbey. But there, influenced by novels of horror and intrigue, Catherine begins to think that terrible crimes are being committed, and her imagination threatens to run away with her. With its irrepressible heroine and playful literary games, Northanger Abbey is the most younthful and optimistic of Jane Austen's novels.

This version of Northanger Abbey is based on the first edition text of 1818, as originally published.