Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Henry Raeburn, George Morland and John Constable. Catherine Morland reads too many gothic novels and arrives at an ancient abbey convinced she will find a murdered wife behind a locked door. Austen sold the manuscript in 1803 for ten pounds; the publisher sat on it for years and her brother had to buy it back. It is her funniest book and the first she ever sold, and it takes the trouble to defend novel-reading in the middle of mocking it. Fifty-eight plates of ruined abbeys, storm clouds and foggy graveyards by painters including John William Upham and Johan Christian Dahl supply the gothic atmosphere Catherine keeps finding where it does not exist.