"""E"""". Despite Wright's claim, published versions of the book may contain a handful of uses of the letter ""e"". The version on Project Gutenberg, for example, contains ""the"" three times and ""officers"" once. In the introduction to the book (which, not being part of the story, does contain the letter 'e') Wright says his primary difficulty was avoiding the ""-ed"" suffix for past tense verbs. He made extensive use of verbs that do not take the -ed suffix and constructions with ""do"" (for instance ""did walk"" instead of ""walked""). Scarcity of word options also drastically limited discussion involving quantity, pronouns,"
"Gadsby (novel) Gadsby is a 1939 novel by Ernest Vincent Wright written as a lipogram, which does not include words that contain the letter E. The plot revolves around the dying fictional city of Branton Hills, which is revitalized as a result of the efforts of protagonist John Gadsby and a youth group he organizes. Though vanity published and little noticed in its time, the book is a favourite of fans of constrained writing and is a sought-after rarity among some book collectors. Later editions of the book have sometimes carried the alternative subtitle ""50,000 Word Novel Without the Letter"
"the book leaves me in a state of non-grippedness (to quote Dave Lister from ""Red Dwarf"")"", Kitson wrote. ""It seems extraordinarily (not that it uses that word, of course) and mostly about all-American kids going to church and getting married"". Douglas Hofstadter's book ""Le Ton beau de Marot"" quotes parts of ""Gadsby"" for illustration. Gadsby (novel) Gadsby is a 1939 novel by Ernest Vincent Wright written as a lipogram, which does not include words that contain the letter E. The plot revolves around the dying fictional city of Branton Hills, which is revitalized as a result of the efforts of"
"Bookride, a warehouse holding copies of Gadsby burned shortly after the book was printed, destroying ""most copies of the ill-fated novel."" The blog post says the book was never reviewed ""and only kept alive by the efforts of a few avant-garde French intellos and assorted connoisseurs of the odd, weird and zany."" The book's scarcity and oddness has seen copies priced at $4,000 by book dealers. Wright completed a draft of ""Gadsby"" in 1936, during a nearly six-month stint at the National Military Home in California. He failed to find a publisher and used a self-publishing press to bring out"
"such a work ""was taking a risk"" of finishing up ""with nothing [but] a ""Gadsby"""". As a nod to Wright, ""La Disparition"" contains a character named ""Lord Gadsby V. Wright"", a tutor to protagonist Anton Voyl; in addition, a composition attributed to Voyl in ""La Disparition"" is actually a quotation from ""Gadsby"". Trevor Kitson, writing in New Zealand's ""Manawatu Standard"" in 2006, said he was prompted to write a short lipogram after seeing Wright's book. The attempt gave him an appreciation for how difficult Wright's task was, but he was less impressed with the end result. ""I must say that"
"so that none of that vowel might slip in, accidentally; and many did try to do so!"" And in fact, the 1939 printing by the Wetzel Publishing Co. contains four such slips, the word ""the"" on pages 51, 103 and 124, and the word ""officers"" on page 213. An article in the ""Oshkosh Daily"" in 1937 wrote (lipogrammatically) that the manuscript was ""amazingly smooth. No halting parts. A continuity of plot and almost classic clarity obtains"". ""The Village Voice"" wrote a humor column about ""Gadsby"". Author Ed Park jokingly aped Wright's style (""Lipogram aficionados—folks who lash words and (alas!) brains"
"winner. The paper turned him down. Wright struggled to find a publisher for the book, and eventually used Wetzel Publishing Co., a self-publishing press. A 2007 post on the ""Bookride"" blog about rare books says a warehouse holding copies of ""Gadsby"" burned shortly after the book was printed, destroying ""most copies of the ill fated novel"". The blog post says the book was never reviewed ""and only kept alive by the efforts of a few avant garde French intellos and assorted connoisseurs of the odd, weird and zany"". The book's scarcity and oddness has seen original copies priced at $4,000"
"Furthermore, unlike the typeset alphabet, the cursive alphabet has no letter case. These characteristics could have arisen because Watt was a local expert in Pitman shorthand, which is written in a similar way. The table below shows some examples of how the cursive form is written. Dropped vowels are marked in parenthesis. George D. Watt found his own alphabet cumbersome to write and abandoned it. As he wrote to Brigham Young on 21 August 1854: His new alphabet closely resembled an 1853 publication of Isaac Pitman, containing only 33 letters. However, at this point, Young was still enamored with the"
"four-stanza lipogrammatic poem of another author. Even earlier, Spanish playwright Enrique Jardiel Poncela published five short stories between 1926 and 1927, each one omitting a vowel; the best known are ""El Chofer Nuevo"" (""The new Driver""), without the letter ""A"", and """"Un marido sin vocación"""" (""A Vocationless Husband""), without the ""E"". Interest in lipograms was rekindled by Georges Perec's novel ""La Disparition"" (1969) (openly inspired by Wright's ""Gadsby"") and its English translation ""A Void"" by Gilbert Adair. Both works are missing the letter ""E"", which is the most common letter in French as well as in English. A Spanish translation"
"Athelston Athelston is an anonymous Middle English verse romance in 812 lines, dating from the mid or late 14th century. Modern scholars often classify it as a ""Matter of England"" romance, because it deals entirely with English settings and characters. It is mainly written in twelve-line stanzas rhyming ""AABCCBDDBEEB"", though the poet occasionally varies his meter with stanzas of eight, six, or four lines. The poem survives in only one manuscript, the early 15th century Gonville and Caius MS 175, which also includes the romances ""Richard Coer de Lyon"", ""Sir Isumbras"" and ""Beves of Hamtoun"". It has no title there."
"The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession with the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, ""The Great Gatsby"" explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Roaring Twenties that has been described as"
"1969 novel ""A Void"", notable for not containing a single letter ""e"", contains an e-less rewriting of Poe's ""The Raven"" that is attributed to Arthur Gordon Pym in order to avoid using the two ""e""s found in Poe's name. On May 5, 1974, author and journalist Arthur Koestler published a letter from reader Nigel Parker in ""The Sunday Times"" of a striking coincidence between a scene in Poe's novel and an actual event that happened decades later: In 1884, the yacht ""Mignonette"" sank, with four men cast adrift. After weeks without food, they decided that one of them should be"
"was more likely intended to be heard than read. The details of the ancient oral performance and the story's conversion to a written work inspire continual debate among scholars. The ""Odyssey"" was written in a poetic dialect of Greek—a literary amalgam of Aeolic Greek, Ionic Greek, and other Ancient Greek dialects—and comprises 12,110 lines of dactylic hexameter. Among the most noteworthy elements of the text are its non-linear plot, and the influence on events of choices made by women and slaves, besides the actions of fighting men. In the English language as well as many others, the word ""odyssey"" has"
"possible that F. Scott Fitzgerald alludes to Vespasian's jest in ""The Great Gatsby"" with the phrase ""non-olfactory money"". In ""That Hideous Strength"" by C. S. Lewis, the Warden of Bracton College is given the nickname ""Non-Olet"" for having written ""a monumental report on National Sanitation. The subject had, if anything, rather recommended him to the Progressive Element. They regarded it as a slap in the face for the dilettanti and Die-hards, who replied by christening their new Warden Non-Olet."" In the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel ""All The King's Men"", by Robert Penn Warren (1946), protagonist Jack Burden muses that perhaps Vespasian"
"Gatsby"". ""The single quality that encompasses these varied books,"" he wrote, ""is the use of the full resources of the American language to record with imagination and intelligence a significant aspect of our life."" He ended the review saying, ""All together it is the finest American novel in more years than one would like to have to remember."" ""The New York Times Book Review""'s Orville Prescott praised the book's energy, writing that ""[i]t isn't a great novel or a completely finished work of art. It is as bumpy and uneven as a corduroy road, somewhat irresolute and confused in its"
"Jay Gatsby Jay Gatsby (originally named James ""Jimmy"" Gatz) is the title character of the 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel ""The Great Gatsby"". The character, a millionaire and the owner of a luxurious mansion where extravagant parties are often hosted, is described by the novel's narrator, Nick Carraway, as being ""the single most hopeful person I've ever met"". James Gatz hails from rural North Dakota, and was born into a poor farmer family. He attended St. Olaf College but dropped out a few weeks into his first semester because he hated supporting himself by working as a janitor. After dropping"
"Dickinson, virtually unknown during her lifetime, would be recognized as America's other essential poet. Eleven U.S. citizens have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, including John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, Pearl S. Buck, T. S. Eliot and Sinclair Lewis. Ernest Hemingway, the 1954 Nobel laureate, is often named as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. A work seen as capturing fundamental aspects of the national experience and character—such as Herman Melville's ""Moby-Dick"" (1851), Twain's ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1885), F. Scott Fitzgerald's ""The Great Gatsby"" (1925), and Harper Lee's ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" (1960)—"
"novel ""Gadsby"", famous for being written entirely in lipogram, was unable to find a publisher for his unusual work and ultimately chose to publish it through a vanity press. Vanity press A vanity press, vanity publisher, or subsidy publisher is a publishing house in which authors pay to have their books published. Vanity publishers have no selection criteria as opposed to other ""hybrid"" publishing models. The term has appeared in mainstream U.S. publications as early as 1941. In contrast, mainstream publishers, whether major companies or small presses, derive their profit from sales of the book to the general public. Publishers"
"included in the Library's list. Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington said: This list is a starting point. It is not a register of the 'best' American books – although many of them fit that description. Rather, the list is intended to spark a national conversation on books written by Americans that have influenced our lives, whether they appear on this initial list or not. Among books on the list considered to be the Great American Novel were ""Moby-Dick"", ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"", ""The Great Gatsby"", ""The Grapes of Wrath"", ""The Catcher in the Rye"", ""Invisible Man"", and ""To Kill"
"T. M. Wright Terrance Michael ""T. M."" Wright (September 9, 1947 – October 31, 2015) was an American author best known as a writer of horror fiction, speculative fiction, and poetry. He wrote more than 25 novels as well as novellas and short stories, over 40 years. His novels were translated into many different languages around the world. His works were reviewed by ""Kirkus Reviews"", ""Publishers Weekly"", ""Library Journal"", ""Booklist"", and many genre magazines. Wright's first publication was the non-fiction study of unidentified flying objects, entitled ""The Intelligent Man's Guide to Flying Saucers"" in 1968 for AS Barnes. ""Strange Seed"""
"Mertonians: mountaineer Andrew ""Sandy"" Irvine and authors T. S. Eliot and Max Beerbohm. The Library is mentioned in the 1925 novel Varsity ""The Great Gatsby"" written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, where the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby claims to be an ""Oxford man"". Merton College Library Merton College Library (in Merton College, Oxford) is one of the earliest libraries in England and the oldest academic library in the world still in continuous daily use. The library is located in several parts of the college, and houses a priceless collection of early printed books and more than 300"
"MacKinlay Kantor MacKinlay Kantor (February 4, 1904 – October 11, 1977), born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor, was an American journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He wrote more than 30 novels, several set during the American Civil War, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956 for his 1955 novel, ""Andersonville"". He also wrote the novel ""Gettysburg"", set during the Civil War. Kantor was born and grew up in Webster City, Iowa, the second child and only son in his family. He had a sister, Virginia. His mother, Effie (McKinlay) Kantor, worked as the editor of the ""Webster City Daily News"""
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"on their trade list until 1946, by which time ""Gatsby"" was in print in three other forms and the original edition was no longer needed. Fitzgerald received letters of praise from contemporaries T. S. Eliot, Edith Wharton, and Willa Cather regarding the novel; however, this was private opinion, and Fitzgerald feverishly demanded the public recognition of reviewers and readers. ""The Great Gatsby"" received mixed reviews from literary critics of the day. Generally the most effusive of the positive reviews was Edwin Clark of ""The New York Times"", who felt the novel was ""A curious book, a mystical, glamourous [""sic""] story"
"the ten greatest novels of all: Emma, Wuthering Heights, Moby-Dick, Middlemarch, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Heart of Darkness, The Rainbow, Ulysses, Mrs Dalloway, The Great Gatsby. 3. One of the most frequent complaints was that, of the 100, only 21 were by women. One reviewer desired Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, Harriett Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Erica Jong's Fear of Flying, Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale, books by Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Willa Cather and Margaret Kennedy. She was also frustrated by the disclusion of Angela Carter, saying, 'Carter’s influence cannot be overstated: her allegorical, taboo-breaking narratives have been"
"in English, though it lacks the traditional 3-line, 17-syllable structure of haiku. The poem was reprinted in Pound's collection ""Lustra"" in 1917, and again in the 1926 anthology ""Personae: The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound"", which compiled his early pre-Hugh Selwyn Mauberley works. The poem contains only fourteen words (without a verb therein—making it a good example of the verbless poetry form). Pound was influential in the creation of Imagist poetry until he left the movement to embrace Vorticism in 1914. Pound, though briefly, embraced Imagism stating that it was an important step away from the verbose style of Victorian"
"Bondage by W Somerset Maugham (1915) 45. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920) 46. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922) 47. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (1922) 48. A Passage to India by EM Forster (1924) 49. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (1925) 50. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925) 51. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (1925) 52. Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1926) 53. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926) 54. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1929) 55. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930) 56. Brave New World by Aldous"
"often listed in dictionaries. The term ""redivider"" is used by some writers, but appears to be an invented or derived term—only ""redivide"" and ""redivision"" appear in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary. ""[[Malayalam]]"", a language of southern India, is of equal length. In English, two palindromic novels have been published: ""Satire: Veritas"" by [[David Stephens]] (1980, 58,795 letters), and ""Dr Awkward & Olson in Oslo"" by [[Lawrence Levine]] (1986, 31,954 words). What is better known is the 224-word long poem ""Dammit I'm Mad"" by [[Demetri Martin]]. According to [[Guinness World Records]], the [[Finnish language|Finnish]] 19-letter word ""saippuakivikauppias"" (a [[soapstone]] vendor), is the"
"bay from Great Neck. This real-life juxtaposition gave Fitzgerald his idea for ""West Egg"" and ""East Egg."" In this novel, Great Neck (King's Point) became the ""new money"" peninsula of West Egg and Port Washington (Sands Point) the old-money East Egg. Several mansions in the area served as inspiration for Gatsby's home, such as Oheka Castle and Beacon Towers, since demolished. By mid-1923, Fitzgerald had written 18,000 words for his novel, but discarded most of his new story as a false start. Some of it, however, resurfaced in the 1924 short story ""Absolution."" Work on ""The Great Gatsby"" began in"
"no face, but instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a non-existent nose."" Although this passage has some resemblance to the painting, a closer explanation can be found in the description of Daisy Buchanan as the ""girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs."" Ernest Hemingway wrote in ""A Moveable Feast"" that when Fitzgerald lent him a copy of ""The Great Gatsby"" to read, he immediately disliked the cover, but ""Scott told me not to be put off by it, that it had to do with a billboard along a highway in"
"less prominent than others; the hardest to spot is in the ""W"" painting, where he appears (representing, of course ""Wilks"") in a tiny cameo on a reproduction of the cover of his earlier book ""Weather Works"". Each letter is itself represented several times, typically in braille, morse code, semaphore, and sign language as well as in its printed form. According to Wilks the book contained depictions of 7,777 words in total, ranging from just 30 for the letter X to 1,229 for the letter S, taking a total of 18,000 hours to complete. A single object may be described by"
"composition of ""Vertigo"" the most difficult of his wordless novels to manage; he spent two years engraving the blocks, which range in size from to . Ward discarded numerous blocks he was dissatisfied with, using 230 in the finished work. The book was published by Random House in November 1937. Following its initial publication the book was not reprinted for over seventy years. It has since been reprinted by Dover Publications in 2009 and Library of America, in a 2010 complete collection of Ward's wordless novels. The blocks for the book—including discards—are in the Special Collection of Rutgers University in"
"of its cues from Europe. Writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henry David Thoreau established a distinctive American literary voice by the middle of the 19th century. Mark Twain and poet Walt Whitman were major figures in the century's second half; Emily Dickinson, virtually unknown during her lifetime, is now recognized as an essential American poet. A work seen as capturing fundamental aspects of the national experience and character—such as Herman Melville's ""Moby-Dick"" (1851), Twain's ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1885), F. Scott Fitzgerald's ""The Great Gatsby"" (1925) and Harper Lee's ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" (1960)—may be"