ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who wrote ‘Romola’?
A
Thomas Hardy
B
W. M. Thackery
C
George Eliot
D
R. L. Stevenson
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Romola, novel by George Eliot, first published in 1862–63 in The Cornhill Magazine . The book was published in three volumes in 1863.

Detailed explanation-2: -Romola, novel by George Eliot, first published in 1862–63 in The Cornhill Magazine. The book was published in three volumes in 1863.

Detailed explanation-3: -About Romola At its heart is Romola, the devoted daughter of a blind scholar, married to the clever but ultimately treacherous Tito whose duplicity in both love and politics threatens to destroy everything she values, and she must break away to find her own path in life.

Detailed explanation-4: -George Eliot was an English Victorian novelist known for the psychological depth of her characters and her descriptions of English rural life. Her major works included Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876).

Detailed explanation-5: -George Eliot was the pen name of the novelist Mary Ann Evans. She grew up in Warwickshire at a time when industrialisation was transforming the countryside. Her mother died when she was 17, and in 1841 she and her father moved to Coventry which she would use as inspiration for the fictional town of Middlemarch.

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