Chapter 2
Chapter 2
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Northanger Abbey
Catherine Morland is seventeen, good-natured, and has read a great many Gothic novels. Taken to Bath for the season, she makes a fast friend of the flirtatious Isabella Thorpe, is pursued by Isabella's boorish brother, and falls for the clever, teasing Henry Tilney. When the Tilneys invite her to their family home, Northanger Abbey, Catherine arrives expecting secret passages and hidden crimes, and goes looking for them. Austen's affectionate send-up of the horror novels of her day was one of the first she wrote, and it was published only after her death in 1817.