ডেইলি কুইজ [২০০ দিন]

• "New Arabian Nights'' is a collection of stories written by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- ১৮৮২ সালে এটি প্রকাশিত হয়।
- গল্পে একজন প্রিন্স - Florizel of Bohemia এর কথা বলা হয়েছে যে লন্ডন শহরের রাস্তায় ছদ্মবেশে ঘুরে বেরায়।
- এই সাহিত্যকর্মটি অনেকটা collection of middle eastern folk stories collection named One thousand and One night অথবা আলিফ লায়লা এর গল্পগুলির সাথে সামঞ্জস্যপূর্ন।

• Robert Louis Stevenson, popularly known as: R.L Stevenson was a Scottish essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books, best known for his works Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

• Best Works:
- A Child’s Garden of Verses,
- A Footnote to History,
- Across the Plains,
- Catriona,
- In the South Seas,
- Kidnapped,
- Prince Otto,
- The Amateur Emigrant,
- The Beach of Falesa,
- The Black Arrow,
- A Tale of the Two Roses,
- The Ebb-Tide,
- The Master of Ballantrae,
- The Pentland Rising,
- The Silverado Squatters,
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes,
- Treasure Island,
- Virginibus Puerisque,
- Weir of Hermiston, etc.

Source: Britannica

• John Stuart Mill wrote the book 'Utilitarianism'.
- It is an ethical principle according to which an action is right if it tends to maximize happiness, not only that of the agent but also of everyone affected.
- 'Utilitarianism' বা উপযোগিতাবাদ, আদর্শিক নীতিশাস্ত্রে, একটি ঐতিহ্য যা ১৮ - ১৯ শতকের শেষের দিকে ইংরেজ দার্শনিক এবং অর্থনীতিবিদ Jeremy Bentham এবং John Stuart Mill দ্বারা উদ্ভাবিত।

• John Stuart Mill was a renowned English Philosopher and political economist.
- He was the leading expositor of utilitarianism.

• Notable Works:
- Essay on Economics and society (Article, 1967),
- Utilitarianism (1863),
- The Subjection of Women. (1869),
- On Liberty (1859), etc.

Source: Britannica.

• The Poem 'Rabbi Ben Ezra' is written by - Robert Browning.
- এটি হচ্ছে একটি dramatic monologue.
- ১৮৬৪ সালে কবিতাটি তাঁর Dramatis Personae সংকলনের অন্তর্ভুক্ত হয়ে প্রকাশিত হয়েছিল।
- Through the personage of Rabbi Ben Ezra, a scholarly and learned Jew, the poem sets forth Browning’s religious philosophy.
- The poem’s final metaphor describes life as a pot that is fashioned by the Master’s hand and argues that the value of a person should be measured not by the work done but by the character that has been molded.

• এই কবিতাটির রকটি বিখ্যাত উক্তি হচ্ছে - 
• 'The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made.'

• Robert Browning:
- Victorian age এর অন্যতম শ্রেষ্ঠ কবি হিসেবে তাকে গণ্য করা হয়।
- তিনি খ্যাতি অর্জন করেছিলেন তার dramatic monologues এর জন্য।

• Best Works:
- The Ring and the Book,
- Fra Lippo Lippi,
- My Last Duchess,
- Paracelsus,
- Rabbi Ben Ezra,
- Sordello,
- Pauline,
- The Patriot,
- A Grammarian’s Funeral,
- Andera del Sarto,
- Men and Women,
- Dramatic Lyrics,
- Dramatis Personae,
- Bishop Blougram’s Apology,
- Christmas Eve and Easter-Day,
- Porphyria's Lover, etc.

Source: Britannica

• 'Silas Marner' is a character created by - George Eliot.
- Silas Marner, in full Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, novel by George Eliot, published in 1861.
- এই novel এর কেন্দ্রীয় চরিত্র Silas Marner এর নামেই novel টির নামকরণ করা হয়েছে।
- The story’s title character is a friendless weaver who cares only for his cache of gold.
-He is ultimately redeemed through his love for Eppie, an abandoned golden-haired baby girl, whom he discovers shortly after he is robbed and rears as his own child.

• Goerge Eliot Victorian Period এর একজন বিখ্যাত Novelist, who developed the method of psychological analysis characteristic of modern fiction.
- তাঁর real name হচ্ছে - Mary Ann Evans.

• তাঁর উল্লেখযোগ্য সাহিত্যকর্ম -
- The Mill on the Floss,
- Scenes of Clerical Life,
- Adan Bede,
- Silas Marner,
- Romola,
- Middlemach, etc.

Source: An ABC for English Literature by Dr M Mofizar Rahman and Britannica.

• Daisy Miller is a novel written by - Henry James.
- It is a novel by Henry James that first appeared in The Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1878, and in book form the following year.
- It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne, a sophisticated compatriot of hers.
- His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates when they meet in Switzerland and Italy.

• Henry James: 
- He was an American novelist and critic. He was born in 1843 in New York City.
- তিনি তাঁর জীবদ্দশায় ২০ টি উপন্যাস, ১১২টি Tales এবং ১২টি play লিখেছিলেন।

• Best Works of Henry James:
- Daisy Miller,
- The American,
- The tragic muse,
- The wings of the dove, 
- The golden bowl,
- The Portrait of a Lady,
- The Bostonians,
- The Ambassadors, etc.

Source: Britannica.com

• ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness......"- This line is taken from - 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens.
- This is the opening line of the novel.

• Complete quotation:
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

• A Tale of Two Cities একটি Historical Novel.
- এই Novel টিতে দুইটি city কে ঘিরে কাহিনী গড়ে উঠেছে - এগুলো হচ্ছে London and Paris.
- The story is set in the late 18th century against the background of the French Revolution.
- The French Revolution, for his sprawling tale of London and revolutionary Paris, the novel offers more drama than accuracy.

• এই novel এর উল্লেখযোগ্য চরিত্র সমূহ -
- Sydne Carton
- Lucie Manette
- Chrales Darnay
- Dr. Alexandre Manette
- Madame Defarge.

• Charles Dickes:
- Born: February 7, 1812, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
- Death: June 9, 1870.
- Boz' was the pseudonym of Charles Dickens.
- He was considered the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.

• Best Works:
- A Christmas Carol,
- David Copperfield,
- Bleak House.
- A Tale of Two Cities,
- Great Expectations,
- Our Mutual Friend,
- Hard Times, etc.

Source: Britannica and Live MCQ Lecture.