"Reading makes a full man (Bacon, 1597)." Novels written by the writers like Jane Austen, Victor Hugo and Ernest Hemingway help us to know more about our history, culture and many other things.
Jane Austen was one of the most well-known women writers in the world. She was born in England in 1775. Jane loved reading and writing. She wrote a number of famous novels in her life. Among them, Pride and Prejudice (傲慢与偏见) written in 1779 was the most popular.
Victor Hugo, born in 1802 in France, was one of the best writers in the 19th century. The talent for writing and hard work brought great success to Hugo at an early age. His most popular novel, Notre-Dame de Paris (巴黎圣母院), was published in 1831. The book was so successful that it was quickly translated into many other languages across Europe.
Ernest Hemingway, an outstanding American writer and reporter, was born in 1899. His life experience had a great influence on his writing style. Hemingway lived in France and Italy between the 1920s and 1950s. Most of his books like The Sun Also Rises were written at that time. He won the Nobel Prize in 1954 mainly because of the novel The Old Man and the Sea.
