Northanger Abbey
A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Austen's "Gothic parody." Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers give the story an uncanny air, but one with a decidedly satirical twist.
The story's unlikely heroine is Catherine Morland, a remarkably innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, a great reader of Gothic thrillers, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with terrible suspicions. What is the mystery surrounding the death of Henry's mother? Is the family concealing a terrible secret within the elegant rooms of the Abbey? Can she trust Henry, or is he part of an evil conspiracy? Catherine finds dreadful portents in the most prosaic events, until Henry persuades her to see the peril in confusing life with art.
Executed with high-spirited gusto, Northanger Abbey is a lighthearted, yet unsentimental commentary on love and marriage.
220 pages, 135 editions
English edition · First published 1817 by Magna Books · ISBN 9781854223623
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Editions
60 editions
English
- Northanger Abbey · Magna Books · 1992 · ISBN 9781854223623 · 1 reader This page
- Northanger Abbey (Chiltern Classic) · Chiltern Publishing · 2026 · ISBN 9781914602887 · 1 reader
- Northanger Abbey (Collector's Library) · CRW · 2004 · ISBN 9781904633303 · 1 reader
- Northanger Abbey · New West Press · 2025 · ISBN 9781649659132
- Northanger Abbey · Golden Flower Publishing · 2025 · ISBN 9798891630802
- Northanger Abbey · Independently published · 2024 · ISBN 9798883607010
- Northanger Abbey · Independently published · 2024 · ISBN 9798879592085
- Northanger Abbey · Independently published · 2024 · ISBN 9798346132745
- Northanger Abbey · Living Book Press · 2024 · ISBN 9781962651080
- Northanger Abbey · Union Square & Company · 2024 · ISBN 9781454953036
- Northanger Abbey · Harper Muse · 2023 · ISBN 9780785293422
- Northanger Abbey · East India Publishing Company · 2023 · ISBN 9781778940729
- Northanger Abbey · Independently published · 2023 · ISBN 9798857498095
- Northanger Abbey · East India Publishing Company · 2023 · ISBN 9781778940736
- Northanger Abbey · Independently published · 2023 · ISBN 9798394441325
- Northanger Abbey: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen · Independently published · 2022 · ISBN 9798847601559
- Northanger Abbey · JonRose Publishing, LLC · 2022 · ISBN 9781630890513
- Northanger Abbey · DIGITAL FIRE · 2021 · ISBN 9789354990380
- Northanger Abbey · Independently published · 2021 · ISBN 9798793527132
- Northanger Abbey · Ambry Press · 2021 · ISBN 9781777682965
- Northanger Abbey · Independently published · 2021 · ISBN 9798793516693
- Northanger Abbey · Independently published · 2021 · ISBN 9798515450397
- Northanger Abbey · Mint Editions · 2020 · ISBN 9781513219660
- Northanger Abbey · Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US · 2019 · ISBN 9781798256671
- Northanger Abbey · Steven Evans · 2019 · ISBN 9781949982787
- Northanger Abbey · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 2018 · ISBN 9781981255238
- Northanger Abbey · Alma Books · 2018 · ISBN 9780714546797
- Northanger Abbey · Read & Company Classics · 2018 · ISBN 9781528705677
- Northanger Abbey · Independently Published · 2018 · ISBN 9781983375224
- Northanger Abbey · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 2018 · ISBN 9781983952784
- Northanger Abbey · PAN MACMILAN · 2017 · ISBN 9781509857500
- Northanger Abbey · Innovative Eggz LLC · 2017 · ISBN 9781945644849
- Northanger Abbey · Innovative Eggz LLC · 2017 · ISBN 9781945644856
- Northanger Abbey · Canterbury Classics · 2017 · ISBN 9781626869745
- Northanger Abbey · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 2016 · ISBN 9781535085748
- Northanger Abbey · Macmillan Collector's Library · 2016 · ISBN 9781909621671
- Northanger Abbey · Vintage Books · 2014 · ISBN 9780099589297
- Northanger Abbey · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 2014 · ISBN 9781499249613
- Northanger Abbey · HarperCollinsPublishers · 2014 · ISBN 9780007517961
- Northanger Abbey · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 2013 · ISBN 9781494406714
- Northanger Abbey · William Collins · 2011 · ISBN 9780007424559
- Northanger Abbey · Penguin · 2011 · ISBN 9780141197715
- Northanger Abbey · Cricket House Books LLC · 2011 · ISBN 9781935814351
- Northanger Abbey · Sourcebooks, Incorporated · 2010 · ISBN 9781402256844
- Northanger Abbey · SoHo Books · 2010 · ISBN 9781453767535
- Northanger Abbey · CruGuru · 2009 · ISBN 9781920265618
- Northanger Abbey · Wilder Publications, Incorporated · 2009 · ISBN 9781604597349
- Northanger Abbey · Real Reads · 2008 · ISBN 9781906230081
- Northanger Abbey · Vintage Books · 2008 · ISBN 9780099511878
- Northanger Abbey · Penguin · 2008 · ISBN 9781101664131
- Northanger Abbey · Vintage Classics · 2007 · ISBN 9780307386830
- Northanger Abbey · Collector's Library · 2004 · ISBN 9780760755143
- Northanger Abbey · Barnes & Noble Books · 2000 · ISBN 9780760719435
- Northanger Abbey · Könemann · 1999 · ISBN 9783829030014
- Northanger Abbey · Broadview Press · 1996 · ISBN 9781551110783
- Northanger Abbey · Modern Library · 1995 · ISBN 9780679601920
- Northanger Abbey · Knopf · 1992 · ISBN 9780679417156
- Northanger Abbey · unspecified · 1992 · ISBN 9798735370420
- Northanger Abbey · New American Library · 1965 · ISBN 9780451515391
- Northanger Abbey · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 1817 · ISBN 9781548799854
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