00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000004166 20200508202615 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 0-85229-531-6b2 010-0520004166 eng 001.03 001.03/AUS/G Jane Austen Great Books of The Western World, Vol. 46/07446 8 New York Abdi Tandur 2005 ix; 600 hal 600 hal Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. in an attempt to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volumes. The series is now in its second edition and contains 60 volumes. Volume 46 served the history and works of two women writers; Jane Austen and George Eliot. Jane Austen was a British novelist whose realism, biting social commentary, and masterful use of free indirect speech, burlesque, and irony have earned her a place as one of the most widely-read and best-loved writers in British literature. Then, George Eliot, a pen name of Mary Ann (Marian) Evans, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological perspicacity.