{"product_id":"northanger-abbey","title":"Northanger Abbey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJane Austen's brilliant satire of the gothic novel.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe most sprightly and satirical of Austen’s novels, Northanger Abbey was written when the author was herself in her early twenties, and takes for its heroine seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland, a spirited young woman preoccupied with the pleasures of dressing, dancing, and reading sensational novels. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen she visits Northanger Abbey, the ancestral home of handsome Henry Tilney, Catherine’s taste in books comes back to haunt her. The rambling house, full of locked doors, and the family’s mysterious history give rise to delightfully dreadful suspicions, and finally only Catherine’s sweet nature and good humor triumph over her susceptibility. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA sly commentary on the power of literature as well as a cautionary tale about the perils of naïveté, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNorthanger Abbey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a fresh and funny tale of one young woman receiving, as Margaret Drabble reveals in her illuminating introduction, “intensive instruction in the ways of the world.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an Introduction by Margaret Drabble\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eand an Afterword by Stephanie Laurens\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50754290712874,"sku":null,"price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0038\/2009\/3509\/files\/northangerabbeysignet.jpg?v=1761758673","url":"https:\/\/alittlebookish.com\/products\/northanger-abbey","provider":"A Little Bookish","version":"1.0","type":"link"}