(Original, Unabridged Classic, Premium Hardbound Collector's Edition, Ideal for Gifting)
Jane Austen
"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."
Catherine Morland is seventeen, romantically naive, and deeply addicted to Gothic novels. When she is invited to spend a season in Bath and then visits the romantic pile of Northanger Abbey, her imagination runs away with her — conjuring dark secrets and villainous plots in perfectly ordinary circumstances. Jane Austen's earliest completed novel is also her most playfully self-aware: a delightful comedy about the dangers of reading too many novels.
Beneath the parody lies a perceptive social satire and a genuine love story. Henry Tilney — witty, teasing, and unexpectedly kind — is one of Austen's most attractive heroes, and Catherine's gradual discovery that the real world is stranger and more complicated than any Gothic fiction makes for a heroine whose growth is entirely convincing. The Penguin Select Classics edition captures its charm: love turns out to be simpler than a novel-obsessed heart imagined.
This premium hardbound collector's edition with sprayed edges presents Austen's original, unabridged text — a delightful addition to any complete Austen collection.
