Northanger Abbey

Overview

"Jane Austen is a genius, and Northanger Abbey is hugely underrated." —Martin Amis, author, House of Meetings

Catherine Morland is a young girl with a very active imagination. Her naivety and love of sensational novels lead her to approach the fashionable social scene in Bath and her stay at nearby Northanger Abbey with preconceptions that have embarrassing and entertaining consequences.

Reviews

"Jane Austen is a genius, and Northanger Abbey is hugely underrated." —Martin Amis, author, House of Meetings

"Somebody reading over my shoulder refuses to believe that I found Northanger Abbey funnier than Catch 22, but I did. So there." —Jenny Colgan, author, No Sex in the City

"Jane Austen's lightest and most playful novel." —Independent

"The most perfect artist among women, the writer whose books are immortal." —Virginia Woolf

Author Biography

Jane Austen (1775–1817) is also the author of Emma, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, and Sense and Sensibility.