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

considered one ofher poorer works.
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