Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
First published 1817 · English · 251 pages
- Novels
- Love and romance
- Horror and gothic
Northanger Abbey follows Catherine Morland, a young woman from a country parsonage who loves gothic novels. Invited to spend a season in the fashionable town of Bath, she makes new friends, finds herself caught up in the social whirl, and meets the witty Henry Tilney.
When she is later invited to stay at an old abbey, her imagination, fed by tales of mystery and terror, runs ahead of the facts. The book is both a gentle love story and a playful satire of popular fiction, and it shows the young Austen's humour at full strength.
Quotes
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.