Northanger Abbey

Billing Northanger Abbey as a gothic parody overstates the case. It does not parody gothic romances in anything like the same sense that Don Quixote parodies chivalric romances. At best, the device of constantly shooting down the naive heroine's gothic fantasies lifts the book to the level of sufferably puerile.

(Actual edition read was that contained in the Complete Works of Jane Austen published by Delphi Classics.)