内容简介
Catherine Morland,an unremarkable tomboy as a child is thrown amongst all the'difficulties and dangers'of Bath at the ripe age of seventeen.Armed with an unworldly charm and a vivid imagination,she mush overcome the caprices of elegant society,encountering along the way such characters as the vacuous Mrs Allen,coquettish isabella and the brash bully John Thorpe.Catherine's invitation to Northanger Abbbey,inher eyes a haven of coffins skeletons and other Gothic devces ,does lead to an adventure,though one she didn't expect,and her misjudgement of the ambitious,somewhat villaingous General Tilney is not wholly unjustified.However,with the aid of the'unromantic'hero Henry Tilney,Catherine gradually progresses towards maturity and self-knowledge.