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“Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Source: Goodreads

Edgar Allan Poe(1809–49):
American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor who is famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre.
His some notable works are:
- The Black Cat
- The Tell-Tale Heart
- The Masque of the Red Death
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- The Fall of the House of Usher etc.
His ''The Raven'' (1845) numbers among the best-known poems in national literature.
[Source: Live MCQ Lecture and Encyclopaedia Britannica]

David Herbert Lawrence's well known novels:
- Lady Chatterley's Lover,
- Sons and Loves,
- The White Peacock,
- The Rainbow,
- Women in Love,
- A Modern Lover.

Source: britannica.

Novella, short and well-structured narrative, often realistic and satiric in tone, influenced the development of the short story and the novel throughout Europe.
The Metamorphosis is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. 

Source: Britannica, Goodreads

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw,
Pygmalion, romance in five acts by George Bernard Shaw, was produced in German in 1913 in Vienna. It was performed in England in 1914, with Mrs. Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle. The play is a humane comedy about love and the English class system.

Source: Britannica

Gabriel García Márquez won Nobel Prize in 1982.
Bertrand Russell won Nobel Prize in 1950.
George Bernard Shaw won Nobel Prize in 1925.
James Joyce never received a Nobel Prize.
Source: Nobel Prize website.

Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991):
-In full Henry Graham Greene.
-English novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist whose novels treat life’s moral ambiguities in the context of contemporary political settings.
- His notable works: Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory (1940), The End of the Affair, A Burnt-Out Case, The Comedians, Our Man in Havana, The Quiet American, The Human Factor, Stamboul Train.

[Source: Live MCQ Lecture and Encyclopaedia Britannica]

Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch is a play by George Bernard Shaw

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/

গ্যাব্রিয়েল গার্সিয়া মার্কেজ কলম্বিয়ার একজন বিখ্যাত ঔপন্যাসিক। তাকে বিংশ শতাব্দীর অন্যতম শ্রেষ্ঠ লেখক বিবেচনা করা হয়। One Hundred Years oF Solitude তার একটি বিখ্যাত উপন্যাস।
এই উপন্যাসের বিখ্যাত কিছু উক্তি:
- “It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
- “There is always something left to love.”
- “They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation”

(সূত্রঃ ব্রিটানিকা)

George Orwell 's story Animal Farm is written in the form of an allegory. This story is an allegory because George Orwell uses the animals as symbolic figures to represent humans and the farm as a representation for a world war.

Source: https://www.ipl.org/

Alice Munro একজন কানাডিয়ান ছোট গল্পকার। তিনি ২০০৯ সালে ম্যান বুকার ইটারন্যাশনাল প্রাইজ এবং ২০১৩ সালে সাহিত্যে নোবেল পুরস্কার লাভ করেন।

(সূত্রঃ লাইভ এমসিকিউ এবং ব্রিটানিকা)

Riders to the Sea, a one-act play by John Millington Synge, was published in 1903 and produced in 1904. Riders to the Sea is set in the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland and is based on a tale Synge heard there. It won critical acclaim as one of dramatic literature’s greatest one-act plays.

Source: Britannica

H.G. Wells(1866-1946):
- In full Herbert George Wells.
- English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine and The  War of the Worlds and such comic novels as Tono-Bungay and The History of Mr. Polly.
- His other science fiction novels: The Wonderful Visit (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The    First Men in the Moon (1901), and The Food of the Gods (1904).
- He also wrote many short stories, which were collected in The Stolen Bacillus (1895), The Plattner Story (1897), and Tales of          Space and Time (1899).

[Source: Live MCQ Lecture and Encyclopaedia Britannica]