“Kidnapped” before the piot was completed. He finally finished
the story in 1893 in “Catriona”. Besides the mentioned, he had
written many other novels, short stories, essays and travel books.
Some o f Stevenson’s short stories were collected into ‘'New
Arabian Nights” (1882) and “More New Arabian N ights” (1885).
His short stories are rich in imagination and fantasy.
Stevenson’s last years were clouded by tragedy. Al: that time
his wife suffered a nervous breakdown. This misfortune struck
him deeply and affected his ability to complete his last books.
Stevenson’s life began to brighten when his wife recovered par
tially, but he died suddenly of a stroke ori December 3, 1894.
Local chiefs buried him on top of Mount Vaea in Samoa.
Stevenson in all that he wrote, in his essays, his letters, and
his novels, remained an artist. He was in style self-conscious,
exacting from himself perfection. Stevenson leads the novel back
towards story-telling and to the romance. Stevenson is so
consistent an artist that it is difficult at first to realize the
phenomenon that has produced his success.
Questions and Tasks
1. What are the greatest merits of Thackeray’s works?
2. What classes of society does he show in his novels?
3. Which work of the writer is considered to be a prelude to
his masterpiece “Vanity Fair?
4. Comment on the meaning o f the subtitle of “Vanity Fair”.
5. What vices of the society are exposed in “Vanity Fair”?
6. Who are the main characters of the novel?
7. Which character embodies the spiri-: of “Vanity Fair”?
8. What works by George Eliot do you know?
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