English writer, “messenger” of realism in British literature, a satirist, wrote the so-called novel of manners – Jane Austen, called “Pride and Prejudice”. Her books are recognized as masterpieces and conquer the sincerity and simplicity of the plot against the background of a deep psychological penetration into the souls of heroes and ironic, mild, truly "British" humour. Jane Austen is still considered the "First Lady" of English literature. Such factors as the Napoleonic wars, the War of Independence
horrors of slavery. In fact, she wrote that novel explicitly to convince her large readership that is was mandatory to end slavery. To accomplish this, she portrayed the human effects of slavery, hoping that readers would empathized with the enslaved characters, and she succeeded. Uncle Tom’s Cabin became a bestseller, with 10,000 copies sold in the United States in its first week only, and it is believed to have influenced the American Civil War. According to popular legend, when Abraham Lincoln and Harriet
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin