Mansfield Park

Several novels by 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 novel "Mansfield Park" translated by Raisa Efimovna Oblonskaya. The protagonist of this fascinating story is a bit like Cinderella - in the end she achieves happiness in life. The edition is decorated with color and black-and-white drawings by two brothers, British artists Charles Edmund Brock (1870-1938) and Henry Matthew Brock (1875-1960).
The novels of the English writer Jane Austen (1775-1817) are considered classics of British literature. They are completely different from the previously existing in European literature detached from life sentimental works, which at the end of the XVIII century could be read by young ladies like Pushkin's Tatiana Larina. Already Jane's early works were a blatant parody of love novels of the time. Critical view of literature Jane instilled in the father of the future writer - Shiroko educated parish priest George Austen. The most famous work of Jane - published in 1813, the novel "Pride and Prejudice". The subsequent novels "Sense and Sensibility", "The Power of Sanity" and "Emma" forever did away with works in which the characters were not like real people. Osten always truthfully, and sometimes with a fair share of humor described real life. It is no coincidence that the writer became the forerunner of realism in English literature. Her novel "Mansfield Park" was published in 1814. Its main character is a poor girl Fanny Price. The story of her life is a little like a fairy tale about Cinderella. Rich relatives, on whose estate Fanny lives, constantly emphasize that she is not their equal. However, a lively mind, optimism and faith in their strength help Fanny to achieve happiness. 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 texts. 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 6y become a character of the writer, although both lived and worked about a hundred years later - at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth 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 in the second half of the nineteenth 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. He studied at the Cambridge School of Art, also began illustration and became a member of the Royal Institute of Watercolor Painters.