Book description
Catherine Morland should know better. She's the very ideal of a nice,
normal girl. But Catherine is cursed with an overactive imagination. She
is also obsessed with lurid Gothic novels, where terrible things happen
to the heroine. Which gets her into all sorts of trouble... When
Catherine visits Bath and meets funny, sharp Henry Tilney, she's
instantly taken with him. But when she is invited to the Tilneys' home,
the sinister Northanger Abbey, fantasy starts to get in the way of
reality. Will she learn to separate out the two? Jane Austen was born
in 1775, in Steventon, Hampshire, where her father was rector. When she
was 25 the family moved to Bath till her father's death in 1805, then to
Chawton in Hampshire where Jane lived with her mother and sister. She
wrote six novels.
Sense and Sensibility
was first in 1811, then Pride and Prejudice
(1813), Mansfield Park
(1814) and Emma
(1816). Northanger Abbey
and Persusaion
were both published posthumously, in 1817. Jane Austen died in 1817.
Well-received during her lifetime, since her death she has become known
as not just one of the greatest writers of English fiction, but one of
the most beloved.
