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 The sentimental novel began in the eighteenth century in England as a reaction against excessive logic and reason of the Augustan authors who followed the trend of the Enlightment: These authors reflected the cultural and socioeconomic content of the since the established parliament along the constitutional monarch, the development of trade, travels and explorations and industry. In the epoch the English literature were influenced by economists, scientists and philosophers such as David Hume, John Locke, Isaac Newton and Adam Smith which highlighted a liberal and optimistic view on human´s progress. In the context of a alternative powers in the government of Tories and Wigs, without political turmoils but stability built on laws and property and the flourishing English overseas empire and trade of sugar, tabacco, tea and other staples to be manufactured in the homeland in a thriving industry, the number of readers increased due to free press in newspapers and pamphlets and debates...

Since the very beginning humanity has always tried to solve mysteries, tribes used to tell stories to solve mysteries around the fire in caves about their rough lives and the first civilisations that started the first writings either in hieroglyphs and cuneiform writings in clay tablets from the ancient civilizations of Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Egyptians and others had mystery stories or riddles like that one of the sphynx about the creature that lives on four, two and three legs that answers to the three ages of man.  Humanity has always been fascinated by riddles and mysteries, the tribes told their stories filled with mysteries and the first civilizations like Sumer, Babylon and Egypt also had riddles such as the one of the sphinx dealing with the different ages of man. In the United States the noteworthy poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe wrote the first detective novel in “The Murder of Marie Roget”  The detective fiction in the United Kingdom which is named “cozy”...