Publisher's Synopsis
Published after her death, Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's most popular works. In it she satirises the melodramatic 'Gothic' style of the time, the caricature heroines and their facile displays of emotion. By contrast, Austen's Catherine Morland is charmingly natural, and when launched into the politics and pitfalls of the Bath social season she behaves with the cheerful open-mindedness of one of Jane Austen's most eligible classic heroines.