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The story's unlikely heroine is Catherine Morland, a remarkably innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage.  While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, 'Northanger Abbey.'  Once there, Catherine (a great reader of Gothic thrillers), lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with terrible suspicions.

While poking fun at popular fiction of the time, Northanger Abbey is a lighthearted, yet unsentimental commentary on love and marriage whose story also exposes the difference between illusion and reality.