📚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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📚A Room of One's Own
📇Author: Virginia Woolf
💬Language: English
🗓DOP: 1929
🌬Genre: #essay #non_fiction

📝Summary:
In her highly influential critical, A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf studied the cultural, economical and educational disabilities within the patriarchal system that prevent women from realising their creative potential.

🔮Interesting Facts:
Although much revised and expanded, the final version of A Room of One’s Own retains the original lectures’ sense of a woman speaking to women.

🔎Background:
The essay was based on two papers Woolf read on 20 and 26 October 1928 to two Cambridge student societies, the Newnham Arts Society at Newnham College and the ODTAA Society at Girton College, respectively.

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