CATHERINE MORLAND goes to Bath for the season as the guest of MR and MRS ALLEN and there she meets the eccentric GENERAL TILNEY his son HENRY TILNEY and his daughter ELANOR TILNEY. Catherine is invited to the Tilney's home the Northanger Abbey of the title where she imagines numerous gruesome secrets surrounding the General and his house. Henry proves that her suspicions have no substance by while she is still recovering from the humiliation she finds herself ordered out of the house by the General. She returns home and is followed by Henry. He explains that the General mistakenly believing her to be penniless had been anxious to keep her away from his son. Restored to a sensible humour by the truth the General finally gives his blessing to Henry's marriage to Catherine. (non illustrated)[]
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