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এই পরীক্ষায় এই টপিক থেকে ২টি প্রশ্ন — Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat ও Emily Brontë's pen-name।
Options: (a) Edward Fitzgerald ✓ • (b) Scott Fitzgerald • (c) Thomas Fitzgerald • (d) William Fitzgerald
The original Rubaiyat was by Persian poet Omar Khayyam (12th c.). But the famous English version is Edward Fitzgerald's 1859 translation/adaptation — so famous in the English canon that it's often 'attributed to' him.
| Detail | Info |
|---|---|
| Era | Victorian |
| Nationality | English |
| Famous work | The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859) — free English translation |
| Importance | Brought Persian literature to Victorian England; literary masterpiece in own right |
| Note | Not closely related to F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940), the American Jazz-Age novelist |
'Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night / Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight'
'A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, / A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou / Beside me singing in the Wilderness— / Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!'
| Person | Work | Era |
|---|---|---|
| Edward Fitzgerald | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (translation) | Victorian |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise | American Jazz Age |
| Penelope Fitzgerald | The Bookshop, Offshore (Booker 1979) | 20th century British |
| Robert Fitzgerald | Greek classics translator | 20th c. |
Options: (a) Ellise Bellet • (b) Ellis Belle • (c) Ellis Bell ✓ • (d) Una Elis
| Detail | Info |
|---|---|
| Era | Victorian (early) |
| Famous novel | Wuthering Heights (1847) |
| Pen-name | Ellis Bell |
| Birth-Death | 1818–1848 (died at 30 of tuberculosis) |
| Family | Brontë sisters — Charlotte, Emily, Anne; father a clergyman |
| Sister | Years | Pen-name | Famous novel |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte Brontë | 1816–1855 | Currer Bell | Jane Eyre (1847) |
| Emily Brontë | 1818–1848 | Ellis Bell | Wuthering Heights (1847) |
| Anne Brontë | 1820–1849 | Acton Bell | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) |
'We had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice; we had noticed how critics... use against them what is, too often, a flippancy.' — Charlotte Brontë
The Bell pseudonyms were deliberately ambiguous gender (Currer, Ellis, Acton — neither clearly male nor female) — though Victorian readers initially assumed them to be male.
| Detail | Info |
|---|---|
| Setting | Yorkshire moors |
| Protagonists | Heathcliff & Catherine Earnshaw |
| Themes | Passion, revenge, social class, supernatural |
| Structure | Frame narrative (Mr Lockwood's diary → Nelly Dean's tale) |
| Critical view | Initially controversial; now considered one of greatest English novels |
| Pen-name | Real name | Work |
|---|---|---|
| Currer Bell | Charlotte Brontë | Jane Eyre |
| Ellis Bell | Emily Brontë | Wuthering Heights |
| Acton Bell | Anne Brontë | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
| George Eliot | Mary Ann Evans | Middlemarch, Silas Marner |
| Mark Twain | Samuel Clemens | Huckleberry Finn |
| George Orwell | Eric Arthur Blair | 1984, Animal Farm |
| Lewis Carroll | Charles Dodgson | Alice in Wonderland |
| O. Henry | William Sydney Porter | The Gift of the Magi |
| Saki | H.H. Munro | The Open Window |
| Voltaire | François-Marie Arouet | Candide |
| Author | Famous work | Genre |
|---|---|---|
| Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist, Great Expectations | Novel |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Poetry |
| Robert Browning | My Last Duchess | Dramatic monologue |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Sonnets from the Portuguese | Poetry |
| Charlotte Brontë | Jane Eyre | Novel |
| Emily Brontë | Wuthering Heights | Novel |
| Anne Brontë | Agnes Grey | Novel |
| George Eliot | Middlemarch | Novel |
| Thomas Hardy | Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Novel |
| Lewis Carroll | Alice in Wonderland | Children's fiction |
| Edward Fitzgerald | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Translation/Poetry |
| Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Novel |
| Matthew Arnold | Dover Beach | Poetry |
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