Northanger Abbey is a Romance of Jane Austen, published as a posthumous work in 1818.

Summary

The young person and naive Catherine Morland are invited by neighbors of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allens, to remain with them during a few weeks with Bath, thermal city very appraisal by the English lower middle class.

It becomes acquainted soon with Isabelle Thorpe, a hypocritical young girl who is caught affection for it, as well as her John brother, conceited and impolite.

Fortunately, it meets also Henry Tilney, young man funny and full with good sense of which it éprend quickly, and of his/her Eleanor sister. They invite it to remain in Northanger Abbey, an old English residence where Catherine finds what soon to satisfy her wild imagination nourished by Romance Gothics like the Mysteries of Udolphe .

Adaptations

2007: Northanger Abbey , telefilm of Jon Jones for ITV 1, with Felicity Jones in the role of Catherine Morland and JJ Feild in the role of Henry Tilney

1986: Northanger Abbey , film of Gilles Foster, with Katharine Schlesinger in the role of Catherine Morland and Peter Firth in the role of Henry Tilney

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