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Northanger Abbey / Jane Austen.

by Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.

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Penguin Books, 1995.

Young women -- England -- Fiction.

Books and reading -- Fiction.

Imagination -- Fiction.

Bath (England) -- Fiction.

Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Penguin classics.

Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 109.

Penguin English library.

9780375759178 (2002 Modern Library trade pbk.)

9780141389424 (2012 Penguin English Library softcover)

9780007368600 (2010 Collins Classic pbk.)

0451511131 (1965 Signet Classic pbk.)

0140430741 (1972 Penguin English Library)

0553211978 (1985 Bantam pbk.)

9780679417156 (1992 Everyman's Library hc.)

067941715X (1992 Everyman's Library hc.)

0140434135 (1995 Penguin Classics)

0141439793 (2003 Penguin Classics trade pbk.)

9780307290892 (2006 Premier Classics trade pbk.)

9780307386830 (2007 Vintage pbk.)

1 v. (various pagings).

Originally published in 1817.

1965 Signet Classic paperback has an afterword by Elizabeth Hardwick.

1972 Penguin English Library is edited with an introduction by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis.

1992 Everyman's Library hardcover edition has an introduction by Claudia L. Johnson.

1995 Penguin Books edition is edited with an introduction by Marilyn Butler.

Includes bibliographical references.

Novel published posthumously in 1817. Northanger Abbey, which was published with Persuasion in four volumes, was written about 1798 or 1799, probably under the title "Susan." In 1803 the manuscript of "Susan" was sold to the publisher Richard Crosby, who advertised for it, but unaccountably it was not published at that time. The novel combines a satire on conventional novels of polite society with one on gothic tales of terror. Catherine Morland, the daughter of a country parson, is the innocent abroad who gains worldly wisdom: first in the fashionable society of Bath and then at Northanger Abbey itself, where she learns not to interpret the world through her reading of gothic thrillers.

Classic fiction.

Historical fiction.

Gothic fiction.

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