Northanger Abbey

One of the first of Jane Austen''s novels to be written, and one of the last to be published, Northanger Abbey is both an amusing story of how a naive girl enters society and wins the affection of a witty young clergyman, and a high-spirited parody of the lurid Gothic novels that were popular during Austen''s youth. In the process it features a vivid account of social life in late eighteenth-centu...