The arguments of reason. Osten D.

The plot of the novel is unimaginated - the meeting of Anne Elliot and Frederick Wengost in his youth, love, gap and a new meeting years later, already mature, many surviving and realized people. However, at the same time, the “arguments of reason” are an amazing “encyclopedia of morals” of the provincial English “light” of the early 19th century amazing in humor and subtle irony. The young ladies chasing rich grooms and hunters for the dowry, mothers and aunts, desperately intriguing in search of profitable parties for girls, empty and chematic local “lionesses”, ruined nobles, gossip and rumors - colorful portraits and sharp, funny come to the reader. situations.