The most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen's novels, Northanger Abbey tells the story of naïve, charming Catherine Morland, who is obsessed with reading Gothic romance and horror.

When Catherine is invited to stay at her friends' grand house, Northanger Abbey, with its mysterious suite of sealed-off rooms, her melodramatic imagination threatens to run away with her. As comic misunderstandings ensue, she comes to understand the gap between fantasy and reality, false friends and true feeling.