Books and Authors question: With On Liberty as the reference work, which book–author pair is correctly matched?

The verified answer to “Books and Authors question: With On Liberty as the reference work, which book–author pair is correctly matched?” is On Liberty — John Stuart Mill, option B. The source-backed, question-specific record explains: On Liberty is correctly associated with John Stuart Mill. The work’s first publication is conventionally dated to 1859, and its original language is English. These three details—title, author, and language—form the decisive bibliographical combination required here. John Stuart Mill, a major British literary figure, is also associated with Utilitarianism; that companion title helps confirm the authorship independently rather than through guesswork. The distractor set (The Feminine Mystique — Frantz Fanon; The Wretched of the Earth — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; The Gulag Archipelago — Betty Friedan) must therefore be tested as complete statements: one true fragment cannot make an entire option correct. A common examination trap is to confuse an author’s nationality with the language of composition, or a translation date with first publication. Another is to treat a well-known adaptation or later edition as the original work. Revision takeaway: remember the compact chain “On Liberty — John Stuart Mill — English — 1859,” and connect it with Utilitarianism for stronger recall. This evidence establishes the bibliographic relationship required in this Books and Authors item. A correct solution must preserve the exact title, author, publication context, language, award or comparison requested by the stem. Similar periods, genres or national traditions do not make two book–author pairs interchangeable. Option B gives On Liberty — John Stuart Mill and satisfies the wording of the question. The remaining choices—The Feminine Mystique — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and The Gulag Archipelago — Betty Friedan—do not satisfy the complete requirement.