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The most commonly claimed authors are Arthur Desmond or Jack London. Romance of Lust, originally published anonymously but variously attributed to Edward Sellon or William Simpson Potter; Seventy-Six by John Neal, attributed to "the author of Logan" [4]
Anecdotes may be real or fictional; the anecdotal digression is a common feature of literary works and even oral anecdotes typically involve subtle exaggeration and dramatic shape designed to entertain the listener.
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
The story is often attributed to American writer Ernest Hemingway.The earliest known connection to him was in 1991, thirty years after the author's death. [1] The claim of Hemingway's authorship originates in an unsubstantiated anecdote about a wager among him and other writers.
The student replies with, in turn, the common name of the fish, a brief summary of the species, and a four-page essay on the species. Agassiz finally tells the student to "look at the fish" and "[a]t the end of three weeks the fish was in an advanced state of decomposition, but the student knew something about it."
Gradually, the term "anecdote" came to be applied [10] to any short tale used to emphasize or illustrate whatever point an author wished to make. In the context of Greek, Estonian, Lithuanian, Bulgarian and Russian humor, an anecdote refers to any short humorous story without the need of factual or biographical origins.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 February 2025. 1889 novel by Jerome K. Jerome For other uses, see Three Men in a Boat (disambiguation). Three Men in a Boat 1889 edition cover Author Jerome Klapka Jerome Language English Genre Comedy novel Publisher J. W. Arrowsmith Publication date 1889 Publication place United Kingdom ISBN 0-7653 ...
In 1975 real-world author Philip José Farmer wrote a science-fiction novel called Venus on the Half-Shell, published under the name Kilgore Trout. Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth, a story by Dean Wesley Smith, was adapted from the holonovel Captain Proton in the Star Trek universe. One unique example is the Tyler Perry comedy/horror hit Boo!