Ian McEwan’s Atonement opens with an epigraph from Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey rebuking heroine Catherine Morland for her “suspicions” of “atrocities” fueled by fervid consumption of Gothic novels. Published posthumously in 1817 with Persuasion, Northanger Abbey was Austen’s first completed novel, written when she was in her early 20s. Atonement, published in 2001, tells the […] The post <i>Atonement</i> can’t fully make the leap from page to stage appeared first on Chicago Reader.