Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E! is a Language Fact in the Language Facts category.
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659 days ago
TayTay4ever
how is that even possible?
638 days ago
bullnuggets111111
there is three e's in your name so there are e's in the book!!!!!!!!
612 days ago
Anonymous
Haha, yeah easily busted.. there are 3 e's already in his name.
610 days ago
Vincent
That's kinda fascinating, except 3 e-s that's already in his name. Not to mention, the contents, preface, etc.
496 days ago
Megs
bn111111, Anonymous, don't nitpick. It's still cool.
381 days ago
Mr. Intelligence
So his novel has no The, He, She, They, or Them??? 
253 days ago
Anonymous
or me or we or eat or live or life or fine or treat or great or love or like or dance or praise or a million other wonderful words
97 days ago
MR.
considering the name is thE grEat GaTsby the fact is incorrect!!!! there is already two!! plus his name and the prEfacE, contEnts, and he would have to say the at least once!!
61 days ago
Anonymous
"MR."- "The Great Gatsby" was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This is in reference to an entirely different novel that is simply entitled "Gadsby," written by Ernest Vincent Wright in 1939. 14 years after Fitzgerald published his "The Great Gatsby".
45 days ago
Anonymous
A Frenchman did the same thing, it's called "la disparition" in French, I know it has been translated into Dutch, but I don't know about English.
27 days ago
false.
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gatsby/characters.html