১০০ দিনে বিসিএস প্রস্তুতি [বিষয়ভিত্তিক]

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) একজন বিখ্যাত আইরিশ Playwright and a Critic। তিনি ১৯২৫ সালে ইংরেজি সাহিত্যে নোবেল পুরস্কার লাভ করেন। তাঁর উপাধি The greatest modem English dramatist এবং তাঁকে The father of modern English literature বলা হয়। তাঁর উল্লেখযোগ্য রচনা:- Candida, Caeser and Cleopatra, Man and Superman, Mrs. Warren's Profession, The Apple Cart, Man and Superman, Arms and The Man, Caesar and Cleopatra, Doctor's Dilemma, St. Joan of Arc, You Never Can Tell, Major Barbara, Man of destiny, Pygmalion etc.
Androcles and The Lion ইত্যাদি। [Source: Live MCQ Lecture and britannica]

Renaissance অর্থ পুনর্জন্ম। Renaissance চতুর্দশ শতকে প্রথমে ইতালির Florence শহরে শুরু হয়। এবং পরবর্তীতে তা Venice ও Rome শহরে ছড়িয়ে পড়ে। England এ রেনেসাঁ শুরু হয় ১৫০০ সালে। এ যুগে আধুনিকতা ও রোমান্টিসিজম এর শুরু হয়।

Doctor Faustus, in full The Tragicall History of D. Faustus, tragedy in five acts by Christopher Marlowe, published in 1604 but first performed a decade or so earlier. Marlowe’s play followed by only a few years the first translation into English of the medieval legend on which the play is based. [Source: britannica]

'An anatomy of the world' is a famous book by John Donne. He is the Father of Metaphysical Poet. He is also called the Poet of Love. [Source: Live MCQ lecture.]

The writer of To Daffodils is Robert herrick. The theme of this poem is Life is short, so live to the fullest. Never to be found again' is the last line of To Daffodils.

‘To mercy pity peace and loves, all pray in their Distress’ - this quotation is from ‘Songs of Innocence’ by William Blake. [Source: Live MCQ Lecture]

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Romantic poet whose passionate search for personal love and social justice was gradually channeled from overt actions into poems that rank with the greatest in the English language. [Source: britannica]

Emily Brontë, English novelist and poet who produced but one novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), a highly imaginative work of passion and hate set on the Yorkshire moors. [Source: britannica]

Heart of Darkness, novella by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1902 with the story “Youth” and thereafter published separately. The story, written at the height of the British empire, reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890 when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. The experience left him disillusioned, questioning what it meant to be civilized in the age of colonialism. The book was the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now (1979). [Source: britannica]

Gītāñjali is a collection of poetry, the most famous work by Rabindranath Tagore, published in India in 1910. Tagore then translated it into prose poems in English, as Gitanjali: Song Offerings, and it was published in 1912 with an introduction by William Butler Yeats. Source: britannica.com

T.S. Eliot, in full Thomas Stearns Eliot, (born September 26, 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—died January 4, 1965, London, England), American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor, a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry in such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943). [Source: britannica]

‘The magician’ হলো William Somerset Maugham (সমারসেট মম) রচিত একটি উপন্যাস। তার রচিত আরো কয়েকটি বিখ্যাত উপন্যাস Of Human Bondage, The Moon and sixpence, The Sacred Flame, The Razor’s Edge etc. [Source: Live MCQ Lecture]

Aspects of the Novel, collection of literary lectures by E.M. Forster, published in 1927. [Source: britannica]

The book Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations (1968) represents a 10-year study of poverty in Asia is written by Gunnar Myrdal. [Source: britannica]