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English Literature: Georgian & Post Modern Period

The Georgian Period (1910-1939):

The Georgian Period usually refers to the reign of George V (1910–1936).

The Postmodern Period (1939–Present):

The Postmodern Period begins about the time when World War II ended. Many believe it is a direct response to modernism.

People of The Georgian Period & The Postmodern Period and Their Works:

Name of the Person Title and Pen Name Notable Works
Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945) আত্মজীবনীমূলক গ্রন্থ: Mein Kampf (My Struggle)

তার বিখ্যাত উক্তি: যুদ্ধই জীবন, যুদ্ধই সার্বজনীন।

Allen Ginsberg (1926 – 1997) বিখ্যাত কবিতা: September on Jessore Road
Alexander Campbell (1788 – 1866) Book: The Heart of India
Arundhati Roy (1961 – Present)  Books:

a) The God of Small Things (Novel)

b) Field Notes on Democracy

Alice Munro (1931 – Present) The Love of a Good Woman বইয়ের একটি ছোট গল্প হল  My Mother’s Dream।
Amitav Ghosh (1956 – Present) Novels:

  1. The Glass Palace
  2. Rivers of Smoke
  3. Sea of Poppies
Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) Novels:

  1. Point Counter Point
  2. Ends and Means
Amartya Sen (1933 – Present) Books: 

  1. Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation
  2. On Ethics and Economics
  3. Development as Freedom
Aravind Adiga (1974 – Present) Novels: The White Tiger
Albert Camus (1913 – 1960) Famous Books:

  • The Outsider / The Stranger
  • The Myth of Sisyphus
Mohammad Ayub Khan (1907 – 1974) Books: Friends Not Masters: A Political Autobiography
Anita Desai (1937 – Present) Works:

  1. Games at Twilight and Other Stories
  2. Fire on the Mountain
Anne Frank (1929 – 1945) Works: The Diary of a Young Girl
Barack Obama (1961 – Present) Works:

  1. The Audacity of Hope
  2. Dreams From My Father
  3. A Promised Land
Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970) Works:

  1. The Elements of Ethics
  2. The Conquest of Happiness
Babul Chowdhury  Works: Innocent Millions
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880 – 1932) Sultana’s Dream (এটি ইংরেজীতে লেখা তাঁর একমাত্র উপন্যাস)
Chinua Achebe (1930 – 2013)
  • Father of Modern African Literature
Novels:

  1. Things Fall Apart
  2. Arrow of God
Colonel Gaddafi (1942 – 2011) Book: The Green Book
Dan Brown (1964 – Present) Bestselling novels:

  1. The Da Vinci Code
  2. Angels and Demons
David Emile Durkheim (1858 – 1917) Book: Suicide: A Study in Sociology
Doris Lessing (1919 -2013) Famous Novels:

  1. The Grass is Singing
  2. The Children of Violence
D.H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930)   Full Name: David Herbert Lawrence Famous Novels:

  1. Sons and Lovers
  2. Lady Chatterjey’s Lover

Famous short stories:

  1. The Virgin and the Gypsy
  2. The Rocking-Horse Winner
ড. সুনীতিকুমার চট্টোপাধ্যায় (1890 – 1977) বিখ্যাত ভাষা বিষয়ক গ্রন্থ: The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language (ODBL)
ড. আকবর আলী খান (1944 – Present) Famous Book:

Gresham’s Law Syndrome and Beyond: An Analysis of the Bangladesh Bureaucracy

E.M. Milford Books: The Field of Embroidered Quilt
E.M. Forster (1879 -1970) Full Name: Edward Morgan Forster Famous Essay: My Wood

Famous Books:

  1. A Passage to India
  2. Howards End
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928 – 1967) বিখ্যাত গ্রন্থ: Guerrilla Warfare
Ernest 

Hemingway (1899 – 1961)

Famous short-story book: In our Time.

Novels:

  1. A Farewell to Arms
  2. For Whom the Bell Tolls

Short Story:

  1. Indian Camp
  2. Cat in the Rain
Eugene O’Neill (1888 – 1953) Plays:

  1. The Hairy Ape
  2. Desire Under the Elms
Francis Fukuyama (1952 – Present) Book: 

The End of the History and the Last Man

Fidel Castro (1926 – 2016) Famous Books:

  1. The Guerrilla of Time
  2. The Strategic Victory

বঙ্গবন্ধু সম্পর্কে ফিদেল ক্যাস্ট্রো বলেছেন:

“I Have not seen the Himalayas.

But I have seen Sheikh Mujib.

In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas.

I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.”

Fyodor 

Dostoevsky (Russian) (1821 – 1881)

Famous Novels:

  1. Crime and Punishment
  2. The House of the Dead
  3. The Idiot
Florence Nightingale (1820 -1910) Title: Lady with the Lamp
Gunnar Myrdal (1898 – 1987) Famous Book: Asian drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations 
Gunter Grass (1927 – 2015) Novels:

  1. The Tin Drum
  2. Cat and Mouse
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927 – 2014) Novels:

  1. Love in the Time of Cholera
  2. The Autumn of the Patriarch
  3. One Hundred Years of Solitude

উক্তি:

“They were  so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.”

George Orwell (1903 – 1950) Famous Novels:

  1. Animal Farm 
  2. Homage to Catalonia
  3. Nineteen Eighty-Four

Famous essay: “Shooting an Elephant”