Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated Edition of Famous Works Translation)

Author: Jane Austen
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Publication Date: 2003-03-01
Features: In the late 18th century, British fiction seemed to have reached a stagnant phase. From the beginning of the century, led by Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift, British fiction had flourished through the golden age of novelists such as Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson, but by this time, it showed signs of the "end of the century." The popularity of imitative works of the aforementioned authors made family reading sessions by the fireplace after dinner dull and lifeless, while the Gothic novels that were then in vogue, with their strange and terrifying plots, had the readers' socio-economic sensibilities. Just at this time, a refreshing female writer named Jane Austen (1775–1817) emerged from the town of Steventon in Hampshire, southern England.