Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of the ingenuous Catherine
Morland, whose indefatigable reading of gothic novels sends her imagination
into hilarious overdrive. Austen's literary burlesque is tempered with
edginess and cirumspection, however, as ordinary life takes a more sinister
turn. This edition also includes Austen's other short works and shows her
to be as innovative at the start of her career as at its close.