📚The Call of the Wild
✍🏻Author: Jack London
💬Language: English
🗓DOP: 1903
🌬Genre: #adventure_fiction #novel

📝Summary:
The story follows a dog named Buck, a 140 pound Saint Bernard and Scotch Shepherd mix. Buck is abducted from a comfortable life as a pet and tossed into the chaos of the Klondike Gold Rush and the brutal realities of frontier life.

🔮Interesting Facts:
At the time, London was criticized for attributing "unnatural" human thoughts and insights to a dog, so much so that he was accused of being a nature faker. London further responded that he had set out to portray nature more accurately than his predecessors.

🔎Background:
In Alaska, London found the material that inspired him to write this work. Dyea Beach was the primary point of arrival for miners when London traveled through there. He was friends with Marshall Latham Bond and his brother Louis Whitford Bond, the owners of a mixed St. Bernard-Scotch Collie dog.

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📚As I Lay Dying
📇Author: William Faulkner
💬Language: English
🗓DOP: 1930
🌬Genre: #dark_comedy #domestic_fiction

📝Summary:
The book is narrated by 15 different characters over 59 chapters. It is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her poor, rural family's quest and motivations—noble or selfish—to honor her wish to be buried in her hometown of Jefferson, Mississippi.

🔮Interesting Facts:
Faulkner's fifth novel, it is consistently ranked among the best novels of 20th-century literature. The noscript derives from Book XI of Homer's Odyssey (William Marris's 1925 translation)

🔎Background:
Faulkner said that he wrote the novel from midnight to 4:00 a.m. over the course of six weeks and that he did not change a word of it. Faulkner wrote it while working at a power plant.

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