Northanger Abbey

"Catherine Morland is a young girl with a very active imagination. Her naivety and love of sensational novels lead her to approach the fashionable social scene in Bath and her stay at nearby Northanger Abbey with preconceptions that have embarrassing and entertaining consequences."

~ Vintage Classics

"Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. According to Cassandra Austen's Memorandum, Susan (as it was first called) was written approximately during 1798–99. It was revised by Austen for the press in 1803, and sold in the same year for £10 to a London bookseller who decided against publishing.

In 1817, the bookseller was content to sell it back to the novelist's brother, Henry Austen, for the exact sum — £10 — that he had paid for it at the beginning, not knowing that the writer was by then the author of four popular novels. The novel was further revised before being brought out posthumously in late December 1817, as the first two volumes of a four-volume set with Persuasion."

~ Wikipedia

The story of the innocent and naive Catherine Morland and her over-active imagination, just beginning to discover the ways of the real world, with the 'help' of the teasing Mr Tilney! Will she accept the ways of the real world, or it is possible to read too many novels?


Adaptations

2007

Northanger Abbey

(TV movie based on the novel)

Felicity Jones (Catherine Morland) JJ Field (Mr Tilney)

1987

Northanger Abbey

(TV movie based on the novel)

Katharine Schlesinger (Catherine Morland) Peter Firth (Henry Tilney)