Northanger Abbey (Collins Classics)

About the book Northanger Abbey (Collins Classics)

Дотепна історія любові і забавних пригод сімнадцятирічної провінційної панянки, яка до того начиталася модних готичних романів, що похмурі таємниці і загадкові злочини бачаться їй всюди, - тим більше коли вона приїжджає погостювати до нареченого в справжній готичний замок, назву якого, власне, і подарувало заголовок цього чарівному роману.

Northanger Abbey (Collins Classics), | HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Northanger Abbey! These were thrilling words, and wound up Catherine's feelings to the highest point of ecstasy.' Considered the most light-hearted and satirical of Austen's novels, Northanger Abbey tells the story of an unlikely young heroine Catherine Morland. While staying in Bath, Catherine meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor who invite her to their family estate, Northanger Abbey. A fan of Gothic Romance novels, naive Catherine is soon letting her imagination run wild in the atmospheric abbey, fuelled by her friendship with the vivacious Isabella Thorpe. It is only when the realities of life set in around her that Catherine's fantastical world is shattered. A coming-of-age novel, Austen expertly parodies the Gothic romance novels of her time and reveals much about her unsentimental view of love and marriage in the eighteenth century