Part of Penguin’s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series,designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smiththese delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourfultactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. During an eventful season at Bathyoungna├»ve Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabellawho shares Catherine’s love of Gothic romance and horrorand sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilneywho invite her to their father’s mysterious houseNorthanger Abbey. Thereher imagination influenced by novels of sensation and intrigueCatherine imagines terrible crimes committed by General Tilney. With its broad comedy and irrepressible heroinethis is the most youthful and and optimistic of Jane Austen’s works.