I warn my dear copepod that of Google are celebrating in style the birthday of one of the great ones and one of the universal rights of the owner eyes and mistress of this humble abode .
235 years ago on a day like today, Jane Austen was born, the youngest daughter of the family of seven children of Reverend George Austen, who lived in Steventon, near Canterbury. The rest of his biography is well known and you can see in the piles of pages that talk about it, but start to make a quick and impromptu tribute (suggested by Don Eulez , who always encouraged me to write things without much pomp and ... And that preparation was thinking lately to talk about some of his characters in an upcoming post ...), only add that Jane Austen and her characters fiction in general are an inspiration to anyone who likes good literature. Those who stay in the romantic dimension of his literary style manners are wrong, as there are few novelists who are so good with both physiognomic and critical eye and a sense of humor as caustic, but we never lose respect and affection that every good writer has to his characters ...
is because of his pen have been some of the great characters that have managed to jump off the pages and prolong its existence beyond them ... Google portrays two of the greats: Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet great , heroin is probably the most wonderful of all the history of literature ...
Well, I said! All to read Jane Austen!
Recommended Reading that I just happen suddenly,
Pride and Prejudice de Alba Editorial with Marta Salis translation (which was a finalist Esther BenÃtez translation)
Jane Austen of Carol Shields, an interesting biography.
PS: And as I write this, my Jane Austen miniature, accompanied by C3PO the interpreter, gives me a quizzical look from one corner of my desk ...
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