Gadsby : a story of over 50,000 words without using the letter "E" by Wright
"Gadsby: a story of over 50,000 words without using the letter 'E'" by Ernest Vincent Wright is a novel published in 1939. This lipogram deliberately avoids using E, the most common letter in English. The story follows John Gadsby as he rallies youth to revitalize the declining city of Branton Hills. Wright tied down his typewriter's E key to prevent accidental usage while writing. Once obscure and vanity-published, the novel has become
a cult favorite among constrained writing enthusiasts and rare book collectors. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Wright, Ernest Vincent, 1872-1939 |
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| Title | Gadsby : a story of over 50,000 words without using the letter "E" |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel) |
| Credits | E-text prepared by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 76.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Youth -- Fiction |
| Subject | Motivation (Psychology) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Cities and towns -- Fiction |
| Subject | Lipograms |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 47342 |
| Release Date | Nov 13, 2014 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 879 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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