Which of the following authors is wrongly matched with their books?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Edmund Wilson - Paradise Lost **
- Maxim Gorky — Mother: This is a correct match. Gorky wrote this novel in 1906 about revolutionary factory workers.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez — Chronicle of a Death Foretold: This is a correct match. This novella by the Colombian Nobel laureate was published in 1981.
- Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay — Pather Panchali: This is a correct match. This 1929 Bengali novel is world-famous, especially after its film adaptation by Satyajit Ray.
- Edmund Wilson — Paradise Lost: This is a wrong match.
The Correction:
Paradise Lost, the epic poem about the Fall of Man, was written by the English poet John Milton in 1667. Edmund Wilson was a famous 20th-century American literary critic and author, known for works like To the Finland Station and The Dead Sea Scrolls, but he did not write Paradise Lost.