Northanger Abbey

The first novel by Austen, which, however, was published and became popular only years after the writer's death. A witty story of love and amusing adventures of a seventeen-year-old provincial young lady, who has read so many fashionable Gothic novels that dark secrets and mysterious crimes seem to her to be everywhere, especially when she visits her fiancé in a real Gothic castle, the name of which, in fact, gave the title to this delightful novel.