Today I Found Out
The 50,000 Word Novel That Doesn’t Contain the Letter “E” (2015x135)
Air date: Sep 21, 2015
→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/t→’s 1939 novel Gadsby is over 50,000 words long. There is nothing remarkable about that. What makes this novel noteworthy is that it doesn’t contain a single letter “e” anywhere other than the cover.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gadsby.jpg
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