Book
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
- Published
- 1817
- Genre
- Classics
- Publisher
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Pages
- 260
- Words
- 77157
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50398.Northanger_Abbey?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_16
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 10.8
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 1120L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 9–14
- Ambleside year
- Year 9 onwards · ages 14–17
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
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.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9781539450603
- ISBN-10
- 1539450600
Tags
EnglandFamily LifeFictionRomanceSocial IssuesSociety