Buchara state university m. Bakoeva, E. Muratova, M. Ochilova english literature

George Eliot’s masterpiece “Middlemarch: A Stucy o f Pro­
vincial Life” (1871-1872) is a long story o f many complex
characters, and their influence on and reaction to each other. Her
last novel “Daniel Deronda” (1876) displays the author’s knowl­
edge o f and sensitivity to Jewish culture.
Her intellect was sufficiently employed in the difficult problem
of structure not to impede her imagination. She had achieved the
nearest approach in English to Balzac. In George Elliot’s work,

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one is aware ofher desire to enlarge die possibilities of the novel
as a form of expression: she wishes to include new themes, to
penetrate more deeply into her characters’ psychology.
Robert Louis Stevenson 
(1850-1894)
R.L. Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, and poet who
became one of the world’s most popular writers. He was bom on
November 13, 1850, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a sickly boy
who suffered from a lung disease that later developed into tuber­
culosis. Young Stevenson loved the open air, the sea, adventure,
and, especially, reading. He was a man of strong will. He fought
illness constantly and wrote many of his books in a sickbed. He
traveled widely for his health and to leam about people.
Stevenson’s father was a Scottish engineer, and the boy was
expected to follow in his father’s footsteps, but he preferred
literature and history. When he was 7, Stevenson entered
Edinburgh University to study engineering, his father’s profes­
sion. But this profession was not appealing for him and as a
compromise he agreed to study law. He graduated from the
University in 1875, but he did not enjoy law and never practiced