Rearranging Sentences [Answers]
Rearranging Sentences 8/1 Answers
1. Two Friends & A Bear
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Once upon a time two friends were passing by a forest.
They were talking about their love for each other.
Suddenly a bear came there.
The first friend climbed up a tree, but the later could not climb up a tree.
Finding no other way, the later one laid down on the ground and feigned death.
The bear smelt his ears, nose, and face.
He thought him to be dead.
Then the bear went away.
2. Napoleon and English Boy
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Final sequence:
Napoleon, the king of France, was a great hero who won many battles and conquered many countries of Europe.
One day he saw that an English boy was making a small boat.
The king asked him why he was making such a small boat.
The boy said, “I shall cross the sea by this boat.”
"I want to go to my country because I didn’t see my mother for a long time."
The king was charmed by the words of the small boy.
He made all arrangements to send him to his country.
Then the boy was very happy to meet his mother going to his country.
3. Alexander Fleming
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Fleming was born in a poor family of Scotland.
He was the seventh of eight brothers and sisters.
He passed his boyhood with parents.
He went to school and came back home on foot.
Up to the age of twelve, he was never absent from school.
Penicillin is a lifesaving medicine.
It was discovered by Dr. Alexander Fleming.
Dr. Fleming was given the title “Knight” in 1944 for his humanitarian services.
4. Sheikh Saadi
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Once Sheikh Saadi was going to Baghdad with a group of rich merchants.
The merchants had their goods and a lot of money.
They traveled for twelve days without any trouble.
On the thirteenth day, a gang of robbers attacked them and took away all the goods and money from the merchants.
Then the leader of the robbers came to Saadi and ordered him to give all he had to him.
Sheikh Saadi handed him the bundle of books and also the little money he had without any fear.
Saadi then said, "I hope that you will make good use of these books."
5. Androcles
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Final sequence:
Once Androcles fled away from his master's house and held himself in a forest.
He fell fast asleep there but a great noise woke him up.
A lion had entered the cave, roaring loudly.
Androcles was very much afraid, and he felt sure that the beast would kill him.
Soon he realized that the lion was not angry.
He went to the lion.
Then he removed a thorn from the lion's paw.
It was crying for pain in its leg.
6. Sher-e-Bangla A.K. Fazlul Haque
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The great leader of our country was Sher-e-Bangla A.K. Fazlul Haque.
He was very meritorious from his boyhood.
One day he was reading in his room.
He saw Fazlul Haque reading books and tearing pages from the books.
His father was passing by the room then.
He instantly entered into the room.
He forbade Fazlul Haque to tear the book's pages.
But Fazlul said, "I have read the pages. So, I do not need them."
7. John Keats
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John Keats was born on October 31, 1795.
He was the eldest son of his parents.
He lost his father in 1804 and his mother in 1810.
In 1811, Keats became an apprentice to a surgeon at Edmonton.
But his heart was not in medicine, and he felt that he was born to be a poet.
Finally, he abandoned surgery for literature.
His finest poems like Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, etc. were published in 1820.
This great poet met a premature death on February 23, 1821.
8. Louis Pasteur
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Pasteur was a French scientist.
He discovered that many diseases are caused by germs and he also found cures for several of them.
At first, he only treated the animals, because he did not want to cause the death of any human being.
He found a mad dog and injected some weak germs of its disease into its blood.
One day a boy named Joseph Meister was brought to Pasteur. He had been bitten by a mad dog.
Pasteur gave him some injections and the boy did not get the dog’s disease.
The dog was cured.
The news of Pasteur’s success spread all over the world. Other doctors began to study his work.
9. Nelson Mandela
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Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, in South Africa.
Mandela joined the African National Congress in 1942.
For 20 years he directed a campaign of peaceful, non-violent movement against the South African government and its racist policies.
In 1993, Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1993, South African president F.W. de Klerk was also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1994, Mandela was celebrated as South Africa’s first black president.
In 2009, Mandela’s birthday was declared “Mandela Day” to promote global peace.
Mandela died at his home, in Johannesburg, on December 5, 2013, at the age of 95.
10. Nelson Mandela
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Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, in South Africa.
Mandela joined the African National Congress in 1942.
For 20 years he directed a campaign of peaceful, non-violent movement against the South African government and its racist policies.
In 1993 Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1993, South African president F.W. de Klerk was also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1994, Mandela was celebrated as South Africa’s first black president.
In 2009 Mandela’s birthday was declared “Mandela Day” to promote global peace.
Mandela died at his home in Johannesburg on December 5, 2013, at the age of 95.
11. Kazi Nazrul Islam
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Our national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam was born in 1306 B.S. (1899 A. D.) at Churulia in the district of Burdwan.
At the age of eleven he showed his poetic genius.
In 1914 when the First World War broke out, he wanted to join the army.
At last, at the age of 19 he joined the army as an ordinary soldier.
On his return from the battlefield, he gave up the sword for the pen and began to write poems.
He wrote a lot of poems, songs, short stories, gajals, novels, etc., and travelled all branches of Bengali literature.
His famous poem "Bidrohi" stirred the whole nation.
His poem inspired our freedom fighters in the Liberation War of Bangladesh.
12. Taimur (First Version)
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Final sequence:
Once young Taimur attacked a province of a powerful prince, but unfortunately, his soldiers were all killed.
Then he disguised himself as a poor traveller and supported himself by begging.
One day he became very hungry and could not get anything to eat.
He came to a house and asked an old man to give him something to eat.
The old woman felt pity for him and quickly gave Taimur a full dish of food.
The food was very hot.
He hurriedly dug his fingers right at the middle of the dish.
As a result, he burnt his finger.
12. Taimur (Second Version)
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Final sequence:
Taimur was one of the greatest conquerors of the world.
Once he attacked the province of a powerful prince.
He came with a large army.
The prince heard the news.
His soldiers surrounded the village on all sides and a terrible battle took place.
Taimur's soldiers were killed.
Taimur disguised himself as a poor traveller.
Thus, he saved his life.
13. The Astrologer and the King
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Once there was a king. He was fond of knowing his future from the astrologers.
A good astrologer visited the capital of the king.
The king wished to know his future from the astrologer. So, the king called him to the palace.
The astrologer told something very unpleasant. At this, the king got furious and condemned him to death.
The astrologer was taken to the place of execution. The king then asked, "How long would you live?"
He thought that the king would prove him a liar by putting him to death. He then thought for a while for some way of escape.
With ready wit he said, "The stars declare that I'll die only a week before your death and I shall wait to receive your majesty where you have been sending me."
At this, the king turned pale. "Drive this wretch away and let him not come again,” shouted the king.
14. Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln was born on 12 February, 1809.
He grew up on the western frontier in Kentucky and Indiana.
He was largely self-educated and became a lawyer in Illinois.
He served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis.
In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
His Gettysburg Address became an iconic endorsement of the principles of nationalism, republicanism, equal rights, liberty, and democracy.
On April 14, 1865, five days after the April 9th surrender of Confederate Commanding General Robert E. Lee, he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer.
15. Dr. Kudrat-E-Khuda
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Extraordinary meritorious Dr. Kudrat-E-Khuda was born on the 8th May, at village Margra in the district of Birbhum in West Bengal in 1900 A.D.
His father, Hazrat Shah Abdul Mukit, was a pious man, and his mother, Fashiha Khatun, was also a pious woman.
At the age of six, he was admitted to a Furkania Madrasa and then in an English school.
He showed extraordinary credit in every examination of the school.
In 1925, with star marks, he passed M.Sc in Chemistry from Kolkata University. In 1929, he passed D.Sc from Imperial College in England.
In 1953, he was appointed Chairman of the Secondary Education Board. He had a great plan to give the new structure of the education system.
He has made a great contribution to the scientific research of Bangladesh.
He died on 3rd November, 1977.
16. Zainul Abedin
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Zainul Abedin was born in 1914.
He did not like the hard and fast rule of schools.
So, he drew pictures secretly.
At the age of fifteen, he went to Kolkata.
At the age of nineteen, he got himself admitted into Kolkata Government Art College.
In 1938, he became first class first in the Art College.
He drew a lot of pictures of famine during the Second World War in 1939.
He breathed his last on May 28, 1976.
17. Abu Ben Adhem
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Final sequence:
Once upon a time, there was an honest and pious man.
His name was Abu Ben Adhem.
He was once sleeping peacefully.
Suddenly, he woke up and saw an angel who was writing the names of persons who loved God.
He asked the angel if his name was there, and in reply, the angel said that his name was not there.
Abu then requested him to put his name on the list because he loved mankind and his fellow brothers.
The angel took down his request and went away.
He again appeared the next night and showed Abu that his name was at the top of the list.
18. Hazrat Bayazid Bustami
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Final sequence:
Once Hazrat Bayazid Bustami came home to see his ailing mother.
She asked Bayazid to give her a glass of water, but he could not find any water in the pitcher.
So, he went to the well quite far from their house.
He filled the pitcher, came back, and went to his mother with a glass of water.
But she again fell asleep.
He, instead of waking her up, stood by her bed with the glass of water in his hand.
She woke up some hours later.
As he was still standing by her bed, his mother drank the glass of water and blessed him from the core of her heart.
19. Alexander
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Final sequence:
Alexander, the king of Macedonia, crossed the Khaibar Pass and reached India.
Then he came to the plain of the Punjab which was ruled by a king named Porus.
Porus came forward with his men and arms in order to defend his land from the attack of Alexander.
But unfortunately, he was defeated and taken prisoner.
He was brought before Alexander.
Alexander asked him how he would like to be treated.
Porus bravely replied, "Like a king."
Alexander was pleased with Porus for his bold reply and allowed him to rule his country as before.
19. Alexander & Porus
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Final sequence:
Alexander, the conqueror of the world, once crossed the Khaibar Pass and reached India.
Then he came to the plain of the Punjab. There ruled a king called Porus. He wanted to conquer the land of Porus.
Porus came forward with his people and arms in order to defend his country from the invasion of Alexander. He fought courageously, but unfortunately, he was defeated in the battle.
Then he was taken prisoner by the soldiers of Alexander.
He was brought before Alexander.
Alexander asked him how he would like to be treated by him. “Like a king” was the reply of Porus. Alexander was pleased with Porus for his bold reply.
He showed strong personality and integrity before Alexander.
Being pleased, Alexander made him ruler of another province in the Punjab. He allowed him to rule his country as before.
20. Bad Man Stealing Mangoes
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Final sequence:
There was a bad man in a village.
But when he did any work, he would say, “God had done it by me.”
One day the bad man was stealing some mangoes from the garden of a neighbor.
The owner of the garden saw him stealing the mangoes and returned to the garden.
“Why are you stealing mangoes from my garden?” asked the owner of the garden.
"Because God is getting it done by me," said the bad man.
The owner of the garden said nothing.
He took a stick and was waiting for the bad man till he came down from the tree.
21. Hatem Tai
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Final sequence:
Long ago there lived a very kind and generous man in Yemen.
He was not rich, but he was very hospitable.
The name of that man was Hatem Tai.
One day the king gave a dinner.
The guests praised the king.
But the guests praised Hatem Tai also.
People praised him more than their king.
So, the king felt happy and proud.
22. In Search of an Honest Man
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Once there lived a Sultan in a country.
He wanted to find an honest man to collect taxes. He invited applications.
A number of people applied for the job.
So, he asked for a wise counselor's advice. He suggested the Sultan invite all the applicants to the palace.
So, the Sultan asked all the applicants to the palace.
When they arrived, the Sultan told them to dance.
All the people blushed and refused to dance except one.
The Sultan was unable to choose an honest man.
23. An Idle King
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Once there was an idle king.
He did not undergo physical labour.
He became bulky and could not move or do anything.
He called in a doctor.
The doctor was very wise.
He did not prescribe any medicine.
He advised the king to move a heavy club in the air till he got tired.
The king followed the advice of the physician and became slim and fully cured.
24. Jibanananda Das
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Jibanananda Das was born in a small town of Barishal in 1899.
He took his Master's Degree in English at the age of 22.
The next year, he started his teaching career as a professor of English at Kolkata City College.
He lost the job in 1928 on the charge of publishing a poem in "The Parichaya Patrika".
In 1930, he joined the Ramjash College, Delhi but returned to his place of birth the next year.
He got an appointment in Brajomohan College, Barishal in 1935.
In 1947, when the partition was made, Jibanananda Das left Bangladesh for India.
In 1951, he joined the Kharagpur College.
25. The Golden Egg
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There lived a poor farmer in a certain village.
One day, he bought a goose from the market.
The goose laid a golden egg every day.
He used to sell the golden egg in the market.
Selling the golden egg, he got much money.
He became very greedy to have all the eggs in a day.
After cutting the belly of the goose, he found no eggs in the belly.
For much greed, he became a loser and sad.
26. Buddha & the Widow
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Final sequence:
One day a widow who had lost her son came to Buddha.
The widow requested Buddha to restore her dead son to life.
Buddha felt pity for the bereaved woman but could do nothing.
He asked the widow to bring a handful of mustard seed from a house where death had not entered.
The widow rushed from door to door for the mustard seed.
But she found no house where someone had not died.
Being disappointed, she came back to Buddha and told him about the result of her search.
Then Buddha told her that since death is a common affair everywhere, she should not grieve over her son's death.
29. The Thirsty Crow
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Final sequence:
Once a crow became thirsty and wanted to drink water.
It flew around in search of water but could not find any.
At last, it saw a pitcher with a little water at the bottom.
The crow tried to reach the water but its beak could not touch it.
Then, it thought of a clever idea and started dropping small stones into the pitcher.
Slowly, the water level rose higher and higher.
Finally, the crow could drink the water and quench its thirst.
Feeling happy and refreshed, the crow flew away.
31. Robert Bruce
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Final sequence:
Robert Bruce was the King of Scotland.
He took part in the revolt against King Edward I of England for the independence of his country.
But his army was defeated again and again.
Being defeated six times, he lost all hope and fled away to save his life. One day he was lying in a cave in the forest.
He noticed a spider trying to reach the top of the steep wall of the cave.
It fell down time and again but did not give up its attempts. At its seventh attempt, it succeeded in reaching the top.
Bruce got back his hope at that incident, took courage, and gathered his soldiers together.
He led an expedition against England, overthrew the English army, and secured the independence of Scotland.
32. Rip Van Winkle
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Final sequence:
One day Rip Van Winkle went out for a walk with his gun and his dog.
On the way, he came across a group of strange-looking fellows in a place.
There he drank a drink and soon fell into a deep sleep.
When he woke up, he rubbed his eyes and looked about.
He thought that he had been dreaming.
Suddenly, he felt something strange on his face and put his hand.
To his surprise, he found that he had a long white beard, more than a foot long.
He found his old gun lying on the grass, rusty and useless.
33. Marco Polo
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Marco Polo was born in 1256 in Venice.
He was one of the greatest adventurous men.
In 1271, he set out from Venice to China when he was only 15.
He was accompanied by his father and uncle.
It took the Polos over three years to reach China.
They had traveled by land, sea, over mountains, and across deserts.
For transport, they had used ships, camels, horses, and donkeys.
Actually, at that time, the journey was very difficult because there were no speedy vehicles.
34. Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare was born in 1564 at Stratford-on-Avon in England.
He received a sound basic education.
But he never attended any college.
Shakespeare was married at eighteen to a woman of twenty-one. He had three children before he was twenty-one.
A few years later, he went to London.
There he became an actor and a playwright. By this time he was thirty.
He had become prosperous before he reached the age of thirty-four.
During the next ten years, he composed his greatest plays.
36. Nobel Prize
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The Nobel Prize is the world’s most important prize.
This prize was instituted by a man who was the inventor of the science of destruction.
This scientist was Alfred Bernard Nobel.
He was born in Stockholm on 21st October 1833 and he died on 10th December 1896.
Though he was a citizen of Sweden, he was educated in Russia.
He invented dynamite, which is widely used for breaking rocks, digging petrol wells, and in war.
For this discovery, he not only became famous all over the world but also earned a huge amount of money by selling it.
This prize is given to persons with the most outstanding contributions in six fields.
38. Golden Touch
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Final sequence:
There was a king called Midas. He was extremely fond of gold.
He wanted more although he had a lot of it.
He wished for the golden touch.
A wise god granted his wish promptly.
One day Midas was sleeping under an apple tree. A ripe apple fell beside him.
He picked up the apple.
The apple turned into gold as soon as he touched it.
He could hardly believe his eyes.
39. Socrates
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Final sequence:
Socrates met his friends for the last time.
He talked to them about the immortality of the soul.
He told them that the soul of a man cannot die.
He asked them to let him die in peace.
At last, the moment of departure arrived.
His friends could not bear the sight.
They cried loudly like children.
With eyes full of tears, they bade farewell to Socrates.
40. Pied Piper of Hamelin
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Final sequence:
A long time ago, the town of Hamelin in Germany was faced with a great problem.
It became full of rats.
The people of the town came to the Town Hall.
They said to the Mayor to do something about the rats. The Mayor called a meeting of the councilors.
The Mayor and the councilors talked about the problem.
But they could not find a way out. At that moment, there was a knock at the door.
The Mayor said, "Come in."
The stranger entered the hall.
41. Ibn-i-Batuta
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Ibn-i-Batuta was a great Muslim explorer.
Once on a voyage to China, he lost his way and found himself in the Maldives Islands.
He boarded a ship for Chittagong.
It took him almost six months to reach Chittagong.
He heard the name of Shah Jalal of Sylhet and decided to visit him.
From there, he had to walk for another month to reach Sylhet.
Outside the town of Sylhet, two persons met him.
They said that they were sent by Shah Jalal to receive him.
42. Kazi Nazrul Islam
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Final sequence:
Our National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam was born in 1899 at Churulia in the district of Bardhawan.
At the age of eleven, he showed his poetic genius.
In 1914, when the First World War broke out, he wanted to join the Army.
At the age of 19, he joined the Army as an ordinary soldier.
On his return from the battlefield, he gave up the sword for the pen and began to write poems.
He wrote a lot of poems, short stories, gazals, novels, etc., and traveled all the branches of Bengali literature.
In 1972, he was brought to Bangladesh from Kolkata and was declared our national poet.
He died on 29 August 1976.
43. Kazi Nazrul Islam
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Our National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam was born of poor parents in 1899.
After the war, he came back to Kolkata in 1919.
In 1914, the First World War broke out, and Nazrul joined the army at the age of 19.
When he was 12 years old, he fled to Asansole and worked in a baker’s shop there.
During that time, a Muslim police officer found him to be a genius and sent him to his village home.
There, Nazrul studied in a high school at KazirSimla for three years and then returned to Burdwan.
He started residing in the office of the Bengal Muslim Literary Association.
His remarkable poem “Bidrohi” was published in that year when he was 21.
44. Kazi Nazrul Islam
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Final sequence:
You will have heard the name of Kazi Nazrul Islam.
Nazrul Islam was born on the 20th of May 1899.
He lost his father in his childhood.
He spent his early life in great hardship.
So, he was called Dukhu Mia.
He was fond of adventures, music, and jatra party.
As a boy, being restless and absent-minded, he did not like the hard and fast rules of the school.
One day, this Dukhu Mia became a great poet.
45. Rabindranath Tagore
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Rabindranath Tagore, one of the most leading poets in the history of world literature, was born into the renowned Tagore family in March 1861.
On the completion of his house education, he was sent to school, but he did not like institutional education.
In his twentieth year, Rabindranath, along with his father, went to the Himalayas.
He was sent to London to study law but studied literature with Professor Henry Morley for a few months and then returned home.
In 1911, he translated his poems of the "Gitanjali" into English.
It brought him the highest honor in the form of the Nobel Prize in 1913.
He was made a knight by the British Government in 1914 but rejected it as a protest against the atrocities of the British Government at Jallianwala Bagh.
At the age of eighty, he breathed his last.
46. Rabindranath
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Final sequence:
Rabindranath was the fourteenth child of Debendranath and Sarada Devi Tagore.
He went to school early and wrote his first verse at the age of eight.
But soon, his brother sent him to London to benefit from the education in the West.
At the age of seventeen, in 1878, he arrived in London.
He joined his brother's family at Brighton and attended school there.
He was quite happy in Brighton.
He described London as a dismal city, smoky, foggy, and wet.
Young Tagore joined London University, where he attended Henry Morley’s lectures on English literature.
47. Rabindranath
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Final sequence:
Rabindranath was the fourteenth child of Debendranath and Sarada Devi Tagore.
He went to school early and wrote his first verse at the age of 8.
But soon, his brother sent him to London to benefit from the education in the West.
At the age of 17, in 1878, he arrived in London.
He joined his brother's family at Brighton and attended school there.
He was quite happy in Brighton.
He described London as a "dismal city, smoky, foggy, and wet."
Young Tagore joined London University, where he attended Henry Morley's lectures on English literature.
48. Rabindranath Tagore
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Rabindranath Tagore was born at Jorasako in Calcutta on 7 May 1861.
His father was Maharshi Debendranath Tagore.
He had no regular school education.
He was educated at home by his father and tutors.
He was a man of versatile genius.
He was a poet, a dramatist, a short story writer, a novelist, and an essayist.
Some of his best works are Gitanjali, Sonar Tari, Kheya, Balaka, etc.
He composed Gitanjali, a book of poems, and won the Nobel Prize in 1913.
49. Poet and Unpaid Letter
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Final sequence:
An English poet was staying in Italy for the benefit of his health.
During his stay, he received an unpaid letter from his friend.
The letter contained nothing but some words.
The poet had to pay double postage.
At this, the poet became very angry.
He wanted to teach his friend a good lesson.
So, he procured a heavy stone.
He packed it up in a fine box and sent it to his friend’s address.
50. William Somerset Maugham
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William Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest and most famous short story writers.
He was born in 1874 in Paris.
He qualified as a doctor, but he did not enjoy it.
Soon, he gave up medicine for literature.
He made his first appearance in literature by writing Liza of Lambeth, his first novel.
Then he took to writing plays.
Some of his well-known plays are Mrs. Cardlac, Lady Frederick, etc.
This brought for him a good name.