Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves."

Catherine Morland, a naive young girl obsessed with gothic novels, enters the fashionable world of Bath and is invited to the mysterious Northanger Abbey. Her overactive imagination leads her to suspect dark secrets and crimes in every shadow, until reality intervenes with a lesson in growing up.

A spirited defense of the novel and a charming satire of gothic fiction, Northanger Abbey is Jane Austen at her most playful. It mocks the dramatic tropes of her time while celebrating the genuine drama of first love and friendship.