Northanger Abbey

From the pen of Jane Austen came the most romantic couples and the wittiest heroines in fiction. With remarkable observation, great skill, and subtle English humor, Jane Austen describes the everyday life and mores of the provincial society of her time. "Northanger Abbey" is her most mischievous book, a graceful irony on the conventions of the love story. Catherine's parents are not very wealthy, but they are by no means poor. She is not very beautiful, but she is not ugly either. Catherine is naive, but only due to a lack of life experience. She adores gothic novels, and her whole life, as it seems to her, is full of dark mysteries and enigmas. And only through love does the heroine gain a new perspective on reality, revealing previously unknown aspects of life. The edition of the novel is published in a magnificent classical translation by Emmanuel Samoilovich Marshak, which is considered canonical.