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Discover Gadsby: The 50,000-Word Novel Written Without Using the Letter E (1939)

Open Culture 07 April 2026 7h ago
Discover Gadsby: The 50,000-Word Novel Written Without Using the Letter E (1939)
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“If Youth, throughout all history, had had a champion to stand up for it; to show a doubting world that a child can think; and, possibly, do it practically; you wouldn’t constantly run across folks today who claim that ‘a child don’t know anything.’ ” Ranked alongside the other notable opening sentences of American literature, this […]
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