You must have come across the name of Leo Tolstoy, a great writer in world literature. No novelist stands parallel (a) _____ him. All his novels and short stories convey a message. His purpose of writing was the purification of human mind and soul (b)_____all kinds of evils and misjudgements. His heroes suffer (c) _____ inner conflict, pass (d)_____ups and downs of life and struggle (e)_____deprivation caused by feudal and bourgeois society.