Northanger Abbey

''No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.''

Northanger Abbey is a comedy about reading and misreading-of books and the world-and about different kinds of peril, both imagined and real. In it, Austen''s youngest heroine, Catherine Morland, must navigate financial disadvantage, social constraint, and sometimes quite ruthless manipulati...