Feeling and sensitivity. Osten D.

One of the most famous works of psychological realism in world literature. Roman, repeatedly filmed. The book, with which the Golden Age of Women's English Prose, actually began, gave us many immortal masterpieces.

The story of the orphaned daughters of the poor provincial landowner and their difficult path to gaining adultery does not overwhelm the abundance of events and does not amaze the imagination of romantic Adventures and violent passions - however, it is in it, for the first time in European prose, that the heroine appears with a new type of character: smart, ironic, decisive, perceiving love primarily as equal partnership, proximity and mutual understanding. Is it because the novels of Osten are still interesting?