La abadía de Northanger

This Spanish pulp paperback of Austen’s Northanger Abbey appears at first glance to appropriate the “wrong” movie still for a cover image when it offers Olivier-as-Heathcliff from the popular film Wuthering Heights (1939). This choice may be a conscious marketing tactic rather than a gaffe. With no movie of Northanger to pilfer, the Spanish publisher neatly manages to invoke the novel’s Gothic elements by eliding Austen and Brontë.