Pride and Prejudice. Reason and feelings. The power of sanity

Several novels of the talented English writer Jane Austin, first published at the beginning of the 19th century, are deservedly considered the classic of British literature. The real collection includes the three most famous of them: “Pride and Prejudice”, “Reason and Feeling” and “The Power of Selfity”. These novels have forever committed sentimental works with life, which, judging by Pushkin’s testimony, at the end of the 18th century, young ladies like Tatyana Larina were read. It is no coincidence that Austin began her literary work with parodies to love novels that existed in her time. A critical view of literature, the ability to analyze the text and work with him was instilled by her father, a parish priest George Austin. He, like Mother Jane, was a well -educated person who managed to give his two daughters a wonderful home education. Thanks to the talent, a subtle, realistic, and sometimes with a fair amount of humor or sarcasm, to describe the movements of the human soul Austin became a forerunner of realism in English literature. Over the past two centuries that have passed since the first publications of her novels, people"s lives have changed incredibly, but their feelings, motives of actions and decisions they make have remained the same