کتاب Northanger Abbey Original The earliest of her six major novelsNorthangerAbbey remained unpublished until after Jane Austens death A deliciously witty satire of popular Gothic romances it is perhaps Austens lightest most delightful excursion into a young womans world Catherine Morland an unlikely heroineunlikely because she is so ordinaryforsakes her English village for the pleasures and perils of Bath There among a circle of Austens wonderfully vain dissembling and fashionable characters she meets a potential suitor Henry Tilney But with her imagination fueled by melodramatic novels Catherine turns a visit to his home Northanger Abbey into a hunt for dark family secrets The result is a series of hilarious social gaffes and harsh awakenings that for all of Austens youthful exuberance nevertheless conveys her mature vision of literature and lifeand the consequences of mistaking one for the other