illusions

Nous sommes transportés vers une campagne idéalisée, où tout le monde se connaît, où l’air est pur et les actions naturelles. L’intrigue est à la fois simple et sans complications. Comme une comédie d’erreurs, il est construit sur les illusions des personnages: ils pensent tous que ce n’est pas ce que c’est. Et dans le même temps, dans la pratique, tout est très simple, les intrigues complexes se déroulent...

Jane Austen is an authoress whose work had a tangible impact on the development of English prose.Jane Austen always has a happy ending and wedding bells. At the same time, there is no place for sweetness and illusions – the author always keeps in reserve ironic means and a parody layer. And most importantly: the heroes of Austen are not only people with their multifaceted characters, but also their...

Kate Orme is a young woman whose illusions of marital bliss are shattered when she comes face to face with the dark secret harbored by her fiancé, the wealthy and deceptively ebullient Denis. Kate decides to go ahead and by society’s willingness to overlook such transgressions, nevertheless marries him. Years later, her son faces a moral crisis similar to the one that showed her his father’s moral...