In this classic novel, author Jane Austen unfolds the coming of age story of Catherine Morland who vacations at the fashionable resort of Bath with her friends the Allens. While in Bath, she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor. The Tilney's invite Catherine to Northanger Abbey, their family estate. Catherine, an avid reader of Gothic novels, soon grows obsessed with the thought that possible atrocities are afoot at the Abbey.
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