What is Northanger Abbey?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox Book | | name = Northanger Abbey | image = Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.jpg | caption = Title page of the original 1818 edition | author = [[Jane Austen]] | country = [[United Kingdom]] | language = [[English language|English]] | cover_artist = | series = | genre = [[Gothic novel]], [[Romance novel]], [[Satire]] | publisher = [[John Murray (publisher)|John Murray]] | release_date = December 1817 | media_type = Print ([[Hardcover]] & [[Paperback]]) | pages = | isbn = | preceded_by = [[Emma]] | followed_by = [[Persuasion (novel)|Persuasion]] }} '''''Northanger Abbey''''' was the first completed [[novel]] written by [[Jane Austen]]. It is a coming-of-age [[novel]] and a [[satire]] of Gothic novels. Even though ''Northanger Abbey'' the first of Austen's novels completed in full, it was published after Austen's [[death]] in 1817 with ''[[Persuasion (novel)|Persuasion]]''. == Plot == A seventeen-year-old girl, [[Catherine Morland]], travels with her rich relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Allen, to [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]] in England. Innocent and inexperienced, Catherine Morland is a plump country girl with no friends in the city. At first, she is disappointed, because she does not have anyone to dance with at the ball. Then she meets an exciting gentleman, [[Henry Tilney|Mr. Tilney]]. She falls in love with him, but the next day, he has disappeared. She is upset and sad. Then she meets a [[Flirt|flirtatious]] girl named Isabella. This makes her happier. She does not yet know all the [[evil]] intentions of her new friend. Isabella introduces Catherine to the fun of reading [[gothic]] [[novel]]s. But Catherine believes they are true. She does not understand the difference between [[reality]] and [[fiction]]. Then she is introduced to Isabella's brother John Thorpe, who finds himself falling in love with her. He thinks Catherine likes him too. Catherine then meets Henry Tilney again, and is introduced to Miss Elea