Northanger Abbey depicts the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her

In 1872 the mistress of a neighbouring landowner threw herself under a train at a station near Tolstoy`s home. This gave Tolstoy the starting point he needed for composing what many believe to be the