“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

 

Most people come to Austen for the romance but Northanger Abbey is Austen being openly funny about the gothic novels that were everywhere in her day. It's Austen at her most playful, and honestly one of the easier entry points into her work.

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