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চারটি অপশনের তিনটিই  Joseph Conrad এর লেখা। 
কেবলমাত্র Riders to sea  এর রচয়িতা John Millington Synge.


Joseph Conrad (1857-1924):
- English novelist and short-story writer of Polish descent.
- 'Lord Jim: A Tale' is one of the best literary works by Joseph Conrad. 

Other Novels:
- Nostromo (1904), 
- The Secret Agent (1907) 
- Heart of Darkness (1902).
- The End of the Tether
- Typhoon
- Nostromo
- The mirror of the sea. 
- The secret agent. 
   

Source: Britannica.com & An ABC of English Literature- Dr M Mofizar Rahman.

Mrs. Dalloway:
- Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925[1]) is a novel by Virginia Woolf.
- It describes a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, who is a fictional high-society woman in post–First World War England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels.

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941),
- She was a feminist.

Best Works:

-The Voyage Out (1915)
-Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
-To the Lighthouse (1927)
-The Waves (1931)
-Flush (1933)
-The Years (1937)

Source: An ABC of English Literature - Dr M Mofizar Rahman

Murder in the Cathedral
- এটা মূলত: T.S Eliot রচিত একটি  Poetic Drama। নাটকটি দুইটি ভাগে বিভক্ত। 
- St. Thomas Becket কে ক্যান্টারবেরির Cathedral বা গীর্জাতে রাজা হেনরি কর্তৃক অন্যায় ভাবে নিহত করার ঘটনাটি এখানে তুলে ধরা হয়েছে।
- এজন্য এই নাটকটিকে Miracle Play বা Saint’s Play ও বলা হয়ে থাকে।  

T.S. Eliot:
- Full name: in full Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Born: September 26, 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
- Death: died January 4, 1965, London, England
- He was an American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor.
- He was a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry.

Best Works:
- The Waste Land (1922)
- Four Quartets (1943).
- Murder in the Cathedral (Play)
- The Sacred Wood (Collection of Essays)

Source: britannica.com

Walt Whitman(1819-1892):
- American poet, journalist, and essayist.

Best works:
- A Passage To India (poem),
- Leaves of Grass,
- Drum-Taps,
- O Captain! My Captain!,
- Songs of Myself etc.

প্রশ্নে উল্লেখিত বাকী সাহিত্যিকগণ হলেন: 

- Maxim Gorky= Russian author. 
- Victor Hugo= French novelist
- Joseph Conrad= British writer. 

Source:  Britannica.com

সঠিক উত্তর: The Jungle Book. 

এছাড়া, প্রদত্ত অপশনগুলোর মধ্যে, 

- The Ant and the Grasshopper একটি ছোটগল্প,  এর রচয়িতা William Somerset Maugham.
- The Voyage Out  উপন্যাসটি  Virginia Woolf এর লেখা প্রথম উপন্যাস। 
- The New Arabian Nights, ছোটগল্প সংকলন , লেখক: Robert Louis Stevenson. 
 

Rudyard Kipling: 
- Full name: Joseph Rudyard Kipling.
- He was an Indian born British Journalist.
- Born: December 30, 1865, Bombay [now Mumbai], India.
- Death:  January 18, 1936, London, England.
- English short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
- He is chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, his tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children.
- He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1907.

Best Works:
- Kim,
- The Jungle Book,
- Puck of Pook's Hill,
- Captain Courageous,
- Limits & Renewals,
- Just So Stories,
- Soldiers Three,
- The Light that Failed,
- Plain Tales from the Hills,
- Seven Seas,
- The White Man's Burden

Source: An ABC of English Literature- Dr M Mofizar Rahman 

Salman Rushdie:
- In full, Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
- Born: June 19, 1947 Bombay (Now Mumbai) India).
- Indian-born British writer

Key Works:
- Midnight's Children
- Shame 
- Satanic Verses 


Midnight's Children:
- Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by author Salman Rushdie.
- Published by Jonathan Cape with cover design by Bill Botten.
- It portrays India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and the partition of India. 

 

The Satanic Verses:
- The Satanic Verses is the fourth novel of British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie. First published in September 1988.

Source: Britannica.com 

The Good Earth:
- It is a historical fiction novel by American author Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 that dramatizes family life in a Chinese village in the early 20th century.

Pearl S. Buck:
- She was an American novelist and writer.
- She was awarded the Nobel prize in 1938 for her rich and truly epic description of peasant life in China in her novel , "The Good Earth."
- Pearl S. Buck was the first American woman to win the Nobel prize for literature.

Best Works:
- Dragon Seed
- East Wind, West Wind
- The Eternal Wonder
- The Good Earth”


Source: Britannica.com

'To the Lighthouse' is a famous novel written by Virginia Woolf. 
- It was first published in 1927.
- The work is one of her most successful and accessible experiments in the stream-of-consciousness style.
- এই novel টি তিনটি section এ বিভক্ত।

Characters of this novel -
- Mrs. Ramsay
- Mr. Ramsay
- Lily Briscoe
- Charles Tansley
- James Ramsay

Virginia Woolf:
- She is a modern novelist known for her presentation of inner realities.

Great works:
- The Voyage Out
- Mrs. Dalloway
- The Waves
- To the Lighthouse
- Flush

Source: An ABC of English Literature by Dr. M. Mofizar Rahman

T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot)
-  He was born in  September 26, 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
- ১৯৬৫ সালের ৪ জানুয়ারি তিনি লন্ডনে মারা যান।
- Eliot কে বিংশ শতাব্দীর অন্যতম শ্রেষ্ঠ সাহিত্যিক বিবেচেনা করা হয়। তিনি ১৯৪৮ সালে সাহিত্যে নোবেল পুরস্কার লাভ করেন।

Best works:
- The Waste Land (1922),
- Four Quartets,
- The Hollow Men,
- Ash Wednesday etc.
• His well known plays:
- Murder in the Cathedral,
- The Cocktail Party,
- The Trail of a Judge etc.

Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr M Mofizar Rahman and Nobelprize.com

Crime and Punishment:
- It is a novel by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
- It was first published in 1866.
- The novel is a psychological analysis of the poor former student Raskolnikov, whose theory that he is an extraordinary person able to take on the spiritual responsibility of using evil means to achieve humanitarian ends leads him to murder. 


Fyodor Dostoyevsky:
- He is a Russian Novelist and writer.
- Russian novelist and short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the darkest recesses of the human heart, together with his unsurpassed moments of illumination, had an immense influence on 20th-century fiction.
- Dostoyevsky is usually regarded as one of the finest novelists who ever lived.

Famous novels:
- Crime and Punishment,
- The Idiot,
- The Brothers Karamazov,
- Poor Folk,
- A Little Hero,
- The Eternal,
- Notes from Underground.

Source: লাইভ এমসিকিউ আপকামিং কনটেন্ট & Britannica.com

- Fern Hill is a poem written by Dylan Thomas. 
Dylan Thomas:
- In full Dylan Marlais Thomas.
- He is a British author.
- Also known as, Welsh poet and prose writer. 
- His work is known for its comic exuberance, rhapsodic lilt, and pathos.

Best Works: 
- 18 Poems
- 25 Poems 
- A Child’s Christmas in Wales
- Deaths and Entrances
- Fern Hill
- Under Milk Wood

Source: Britannica.com

Heart of Darkness
- এটা মূলত:  Joseph Conrad রচিত।  একটা Novella বা সংক্ষিপ্ত উপন্যাস। 
- এতে মূলত: পশ্চিমের দেশগুলোর ঔপনিবেশিকতা এবং সাম্রাজ্যবাদের বিভিন্ন ক্ষতিকর এবং নেতিবাচক দিক তুলে ধরার চেষ্টা করা হয়েছে। 
- এই কাজটি লেখকের  Semi-Autobiographical রচনা বলে গণ্য করা হয়। প্রথম দিকে তেমন সাড়া না ফেললেও পরবর্তীতে এটি বেশ আলোচনা এবং সমালোচনার জন্ম দেয়।
- Charlie Marlow এই উপন্যাসের অন্যতম প্রধান চরিত্র। 
- বিখ্যাত চলচ্চিত্র পরিচালক Francis Ford Coppola এর বিখ্যাত মুভি Apocalypse Now (১৯৭৯) এই Novella দ্বারা অনুপ্রাণিত।  

The major characters are :
- Marlow
- Kurtz
- General manager
- Brickmaker
- Chief accountant
- Pilgrims
- Cannibals
- Russian trader

Joseph Conrad(1857-1924):
- English novelist and short-story writer of Polish descent.
- His works include the novels Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), and The Secret Agent (1907) and the short novel “Heart of Darkness” (1902).

Source: Britannica &  www.sparknotes .com