Austens posthumously published novel Northanger Abbey is a delightful satire of the periods Gothic novels poking fun at romantic follies of the genteel classes. When seventeenyear old Catherine Morland a country clergymans daughter is invited to spend a season in Bath with the fashionable high society little does she imagine the delights and perils that await her. Captivated and flustered by what she finds and introduced to the joys of Gothic novels by her new friend Isabella Thorpe Catherine yearns for romance and mystery. Her expectations soar when she invited to stay with the beguiling Henry Tilney and his family in Northanger Abbey. Because she has been reading Ann Radcliffes gothic novel The Mysteries of Udlpho Catherine expects mystery and intrigue at every turn.However the truth turns out to be even stranger than fiction.
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