Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen [U.K. MINIATURE HARDCOVER] 1956 • Thomas Nelson & Sons

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

U.K. MINIATURE COLLECTOR'S EDITION [1956] THOMAS NELSON & SONS

Pocket sized hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. [nickel for scale :)]

Dust jacket has some very minor wear; front panel has some sticker residue and a price clipped edge.  Now housed in an archival quality dust jacket protector.

Book itself is in excellent condition.  *Gift inscription on front endpaper.  Clean cloth boards.  Faintest trace of spotting to text block.  Otherwise reads like new. 

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A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Austen's "Gothic parody." Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers give the story an uncanny air, but one with a decidedly satirical twist.

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. What is the mystery surrounding the death of Henry's mother? Is the family concealing a terrible secret within the elegant rooms of the Abbey? Can she trust Henry, or is he part of an evil conspiracy? Catherine finds dreadful portents in the most prosaic events, until Henry persuades her to see the peril in confusing life with art.

Executed with high-spirited gusto, Northanger Abbey is a lighthearted, yet unsentimental commentary on love and marriage.ed with a missing key. With the help of two unexpected companions, Mary discovers a way in—and becomes determined to bring the garden back to life.