u003cbu003eThe Penguin English Library Edition of u003ciu003eNorthanger Abbey u003c/iu003eby Jane Austenu003cbru003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbu003e'To look u003ciu003ealmost u003c/iu003epretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive'u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eDuring 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.u003cbru003eu003cbru003eThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
