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1939 novel "Gadsby" — The remarkable story written without the letter 'e'
Wednesday June 4, 2025. 07:21 PM , from BoingBoing
In 1939 Ernest Vincent Wright wrote an 50,000-word novel without using a single letter e.
Wright's Gadsby tells the story of a determined 50-year-old who rallies young people to revitalize their dying town of Branton Hills. Wright had to perform linguistic gymnastics to write the novel without using the most common letter in English. — Read the rest The post 1939 novel "Gadsby" — The remarkable story written without the letter 'e' appeared first on Boing Boing.
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