10 Fascinating Facts About The Call of the Wild
The narrator of 'The Call of the Wild,' a dog named Buck, was based on a real dog that author Jack London met in the Klondike.
The narrator of 'The Call of the Wild,' a dog named Buck, was based on a real dog that author Jack London met in the Klondike.
In the summer of 1849, a magician billed as "The Unparalleled Necromancer" gave an unforgettable performance—made even more memorable by the fact that he was actually Charles Dickens.
Perhaps you're familiar with 'Don Quixote': a story of delusional noblemen, portly squires, and windmill monsters. But here are a few facts you haven’t heard about the two-volume 17th-century masterpiece.
Celebrate Bastille Day by sprinkling a few of Voltaire's choicest bon mots into your conversations.
A video from linguist David Crystal and his son Ben, shows what Shakespeare would have sounded like back in 1600—and why it matters.
Philip W. Errington’s 'J.K. Rowling: A Bibliography 1997-2013' sheds a light on the editorial process of this beloved series
The papyrus fragment with lines from Homer's 'The Odyssey' is dated ca. 285–250 BCE and is a variation of the standard text we read today.
In 1931, Dr. Seuss was a contributing illustrator for a "collection of schoolboy wisdom, or knowledge as it is sometimes written, compiled from classrooms and examination papers" called "Boners."
Even the world's most accomplished authors and poets occasionally suffer from this terrifying affliction.
At a 1928 dinner party in Paris, Fitzgerald kneeled before the Ulysses author, “kissed his hand, and declared: ‘How does it feel to be a great genius, Sir? I am so excited at seeing you, Sir, that I could weep.’”
Orwell never acknowledged that he borrowed from 'We,' but the uncanny similarities make it hard to conclude otherwise.
Lots of stuff is more dangerous than we realized. But some things people once considered dangerous aren't harmful at all.
'The Bell Jar,' which came out just one month before Sylvia Plath died by suicide at age 30, is the writer's only published novel.
The horror icon would really rather you not read any of these.
For his 1952 novella 'The Old Man and the Sea,' Ernest Hemingway based some qualities of his lead character on his own fishing boat captain.
If it's been a while since you picked up author Aldous Huxley’s 1932 classic, here are some facts about the novel and its legacy.
In 'The Great Detective,' author Zach Dundas reveals that the frenzy surrounding Sherlock Holmes isn’t strictly a Benedict Cumberbatch-related phenomenon. The master of Baker Street has always inspired fanatical devotion and feverish anticipation.
When Henrique Alvim Corrêa read H.G. Wells’ 'The War of the Worlds' in 1903, he couldn’t help but pick up a pencil.
Everyone from New England Patriots’ coach Bill Belichick to Tupac Shakur has supposedly read the 2500-year-old text’s 13 chapters on the 13 aspects of warfare.
Joseph Heller’s 1961 war comedy Catch-22 is one of the most beloved novels of the 20th century, not to mention one of the funniest. Here are a few interesting bits of information about both how Heller’s story came to be and the legacy that it left behind.
Author John Irving’s book about a boy with a “wrecked voice” who believes he’s an instrument of God is a staple on high school summer reading lists. Here are a few things you might not have known about it.
Lots of people say they like Shakespeare. Not a lot of people get plastic surgery just to prove it.