Emma

The novels of the talented English writer Jane Austen (1775-1817), published in the early 19th century, are deservedly considered classics of British literature. The edition introduces readers to her fourth major work "Emma" translated by Maria Iosifovna Kahn. The protagonist of this novel written in a humorous manner with a passion matchmaking her acquaintances and neighbors. The edition is decorated with black-and-white and color drawings by two brothers, British artists Charles Edmund Brock (1870-1938) and Henry Matthew Brock (1875-1960).
The novels of the talented writer Jane Austen (1775-1817) are deservedly considered classics of British literature. She began her literary work with parodies of the love affairs that existed in her time. A critical view of literature, the ability to analyze texts and work with them instilled in the future writer her father, a parish priest George Austen. He was a widely educated man who managed to give his two daughters a wonderful home education. Jane Austen's novels were completely different from the previously existing in European literature detached from life sentimental works, which, judging by the testimony of Pushkin, at the end of the XVIII century read by young ladies like Tatiana Larina. Jane realistically, sometimes with a fair share of humor or sarcasm, describes the movements of the human soul, and they in the centuries change little. Thanks to this in English literature, the writer became the forerunner of realism. The loud fame of Austen brought published in 1813, the novel "Pride and Prejudice". The novel "Emma" was printed two years later; in the twentieth century, it was repeatedly screened. The main character of the novel - a young, rich and extravagant girl - amuses herself by arranging other people's marriages, matchmaking her acquaintances and neighbors with passion. The peculiarity of the novel - a subtle English humor. Unlike her heroine, the personal life of the writer herself did not work out. Having experienced in her youth a short-lived romance, she never married. Jane died in 1817 at the 42nd year of life, leaving unfinished several novels. Great literary fame came to the writer already posthumously. In this edition, the characters of the novel and the setting in which the events take place are vividly portrayed through beautiful and authentic illustrations by two English artists, brothers Charles and Henry Brock. Each of them could have become a character of the writer, although both lived and worked about a hundred years later - at the turn of the XIX and XX centuries. Charles Edmund Brock was born in 1870. He began illustrating books at the age of twenty, creatively developing the manner of Hugh Thomson, who is considered one of the best British masters of book illustration of the second half of the XIX century. Charles Brock achieved great success in this field: in addition to Austen's novels, he worked on stroke drawings for the works of Swift, Thackeray and Elliot. Henry Matthew Brock was five years younger than Charles. Ock studied at the Cambridge School of Art, also began illustration and became a member of the Royal Institute of Watercolor Painters.