📚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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📚This Side of Paradise
📇Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
💬Language: English
🗓DOP: 1920
🌬Genre: #romance_novel #fiction

📝Summary:
The book examines the lives and morality of carefree American youth at the dawn of the Jazz Age. Its protagonist Amory Blaine is an attractive middle-class student at Princeton University who dabbles in literature and engages in a series of romances with flappers.

🔮Interesting Facts:
With his debut novel, Fitzgerald became the first writer to turn the national spotlight upon the so-called Jazz Age generation. The novel takes its noscript from a line of Rupert Brooke's poem Tiare Tahiti.

🔎Background:
While attending Princeton University, his passion for writing literature began to solidify into a career choice and he often wrote fiction as an undergraduate.

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📚The Snows of Kilimanjaro
📇Author: Ernest Hemingway
💬Language: English
🗓DOP: 1936
🌬Genre: #adventure #short_fiction

📝Summary:
A moving account of regret and redemption as Harry, a writer and man in his prime, unexpectedly faces death while stranded on the plains of Africa.

🔮Interesting Facts:
This classic Hemingway short story was originally published in Esquire magazine in 1936. It was republished in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories in 1938, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories in 1961, and is included in The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigía Edition

🔎Background:
He himself called his literary works biographic and according to many critics, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” can be seen as his most autobiographical one where he deals with issues having concerned him during all of his life.

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📚The Book of Questions
📇Author: Pablo Neruda
💬Language: Spanish
🗓DOP: 1974
🌬Genre: #poetry

📝Summary:
Composed of 316 unanswerable questions, these poems integrate the wonder of a child with the experiences of an adult. By turns Orphic, comic, surreal, and poignant, Neruda’s questions lead the reader beyond reason into realms of intuition and pure imagination.

🔮Interesting Facts:
In his introduction O'Daly, who has translated eight volumes of Pablo Neruda's poetry, writes, "These poems, more so than any of Neruda's other work, remind us that living in a state of visionary surrender to the elemental questions, free of the quiet desperation of clinging too tightly to answers, may be our greatest act of faith.

🔎Background:
When Neruda died in 1973, The Book of Questions was one of eight unpublished poetry manunoscripts that lay on his desk. In it, Neruda achieves a deeper vulnerability and vision than in his earlier work.

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