Section 2
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Books and Authors General Knowledge Multiple Choice Questions with Answers
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.
He is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction.
Anna Karenina (1877) tells parallel stories of an adulterous woman trapped by the conventions and falsities of society and of a philosophical landowner (much like Tolstoy), who works alongside the peasants in the fields and seeks to reform their lives.
William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads.
William Wordsworth Quotes are :
- That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
- Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
- Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
- Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
- With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
- Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
- Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.
Twain's major publication was The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which draws on his youth in Hannibal. Tom Sawyer was modeled on Twain as a child, with traces of schoolmates John Briggs and Will Bowen. The book also introduces Huckleberry Finn in a supporting role, based on Twain's boyhood friend Tom Blankenship.
River of Smoke (2011) is a novel by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh. It is the second volume of the Ibis trilogy.
Ambedkar Speaks (Trilogy) by Dr. Narendra Jadhav was released in (vol. I, II and III). This trilogy is an attempt to develop a comprehensive bibliography of all the speeches delivered by Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar. The series is available in four languages – Marathi, English, Hindi and Gujarati. The first series was first launched in Marathi.
Kishwar Desai is an Indian author and columnist. Her latest novel The Sea of Innocence has just been published in India and will shortly be published in UK and Australia.
Born: 1 December 1956 (age 60 years), Ambala
Awards: Costa First Novel Award
Books: The Sea of Innocence (2013), Origins of Love (2013), Witness the Night (2009), Darlingji: The True Love Story of Nargis and Sunil Dutt (2007)
Mr. Nani A. Palkhiwala is the writer of "We, The People". The book was published in 1984.
Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (first published in 1949) by George Orwell is a dystopian novel about Oceania, a society ruled by the oligarchical dictatorship of the Party. Life in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, and incessant public mind control, accomplished with a political system euphemistically named English Socialism .As literary political fiction and as dystopian science-fiction, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic novel in content, plot, and style.
Guide is a 1965 Hindi film starring Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman. It was directed by Vijay Anand, who also contributed to the screenplay. The film is based on the critically acclaimed novel, The Guide, by R. K. Narayan, and is widely considered to be one of the masterpieces of the Indian film industry.
C is right because Munshi Premchand used to written in Hindi.
The Guide, a novel is writen by R.K. Narayan. Mr. R.K. Narayan was an Indian who wrote in english very well.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher.
Crime and Punishment describes Rodion Raskolnikov's life, from the murder of a pawnbroker, through spiritual regeneration with the help of Sonya (a "hooker with a heart of gold"), to his sentence in Siberia.
Novels and novellas
- (1846) Poor Folk (novella)
- (1846) The Double (novella)
- (1847) The Landlady (novella)
- (1849) Netochka Nezvanova (unfinished)
- (1859) Uncle's Dream (novella)
- (1859) The Village of Stepanchikovo
- (1861) Humiliated and Insulted
- (1862) The House of the Dead
- (1864) Notes from Underground (novella)
- (1866) Crime and Punishment
- (1867) The Gambler (novella)
- (1869) The Idiot
- (1870) The Eternal Husband (novella)
- (1872) Demons
- (1875) The Adolescent
- (1880) The Brothers Karamazov