Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series; designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith; these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful; tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. During an eventful season at Bath; young; naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella; who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and horror; and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney; who invite her to their father's mysterious house; Northanger Abbey. There; her imagination influenced by novels of sensation and intrigue; Catherine imagines terrible crimes committed by General Tilney. With its broad comedy and irrepressible heroine; this is the most youthful and and optimistic of Jane Austen's works.