«Catherine Morland, an unremarkabe 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 vivid imagination, she must overcome the caprices of elegant society, encountering along the way such characters such as the vacuous Mrs Allen, coquettish Isabella ans the brash bully John Thorpe. Catherine's invitation to Northanger Abbey, in her eyes a heaven of coffins, skelletons and other gothic devices, does lead to an adventure, though one she didn't expect, and her misjudgement of the ambitious, somewhat villainous General Tilney is not wholly unjustified. However, with the aid of the "unromantic" hero Henry Tilney, Catherine gradually progresses towards maturity and self knowledge.»