What is the book written without using the letter e?
A 1939 novel called Gadsby by Ernest Vincent Wright (1872-1939) was written without using the letter e.
The novel runs 267 pages and has about 50,000 words.
A 1939 novel called Gadsby by Ernest Vincent Wright (1872-1939) was written without using the letter e.
The novel runs 267 pages and has about 50,000 words.
Chaucer’s pilgrims are going to Canterbury Cathedral to visit the shrine of Thomas a Becket, former archbishop of Canterbury. Becket had been assassinated in the cathedral in 1170, following a political disagreement with King Henry II. Pilgrimage to the shrine was a popular journey at the time the Tales were written (c. 1387-1400).
Robert Herrick urged Corinna, in “Corinna’s Going A-Maying” (1648).
Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote “Water, Water, everywhere/Nor any drop to drink” in his poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (1798). The lines are often misquoted as “and not a drop to drink.”
Bo Weinberg, Dutch Schultz’s former henchman is killed at the beginning of E. L. Doctorow’s novel Billy Bathgate. By Schultz’s orders, he is thrown off a ship with his feet encased in cement.
The poet laureate of England Tennyson sent the wreath to Victor Hugo’s funeral. The author of the novel Les Miserables (1862) was also a great lyric poet. His poetic works included Contemplations (1856).
In the novel My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara, Flicka, a half-wild filly, is the friend of ten-year-old Ken McLaughlin in Wyoming.