Northanger Abbey

Catherine, the heroine of Jane Austen’s novel Northanger Abbey, is fascinated by Gothic novels and often imagines that she is living inside one of them. Because of this, the naïve young woman perceives everything through the prism of her fantasies, seeing frightening secrets everywhere. Her wealthy neighbors take Catherine with them to Bath. There she meets the mysterious Mr. Henry Tilney, who becomes the most captivating conversationalist for her. To Catherine, he seems like a truly enigmatic character from a novel. Later, she also becomes acquainted with the Thorpe family, after which she finds herself genuinely caught up in a whirlwind of intrigues. Follow Catherine on her journey from dreams to the real world by reading Northanger Abbey in the original.