In the following question, find the odd one from the given alternatives.

In a "find the odd one out" verbal-classification question, three of the four items share one governing attribute — often the author, category, or origin — while the fourth breaks that pattern. The task is to identify the shared attribute among the group before picking the item that does not fit.

Here, the shared attribute is authorship. Godan, Gaban, and Nirmala are all novels written by Munshi Premchand, a celebrated Hindi novelist. Guide is a novel written by R.K. Narayan, an Indian English-language novelist — so it does not share the same author as the other three.

• Godan — written by Munshi Premchand (shares the common author).

• Gaban — written by Munshi Premchand (shares the common author).

• Nirmala — written by Munshi Premchand (shares the common author).

• Guide — written by R.K. Narayan (a different author — breaks the pattern).

Since three works share one author and the fourth does not, Guide is the odd one out.