Learning from works of literature

What can Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina tell us about wealth and inequality? Or,   about the economics of early 19th-century England and mid-19th-century Russia? Romance and riches? Let us   look at the novels as the mirrors    to two different societies. Two great novels by two great writers from two different countries explain a lot about the economic well being of the people in the period.