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This Book Is the Longest Sentence Ever Written and Then Published (2020), by humor writer Dave Cowen, consists of one sentence that runs for 111,111 words, and is a stream of consciousness memoir [9] [10] [11]
"A boy's best friend is his mother." Norman Bates: Anthony Perkins: Psycho: 1960 57 "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." [q] Gordon Gekko: Michael Douglas: Wall Street: 1987 58 "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." [r] Michael Corleone: Al Pacino: The Godfather Part II: 1974 59 "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry ...
The books included on this list are on at least three "best/greatest of all time" lists. ... The Guardian ' s 100 Best Novels Written in English (2015) [3] Le Monde's ...
The Canaanite Ivory Comb is a 3,700-year-old artifact discovered in the ruins of Lachish, an ancient Canaanite city-state located in modern-day Israel.Measuring approximately 3.5 by 2.5 centimetres (1.38 by 0.98 in), the comb is made of elephant ivory and contains the earliest known complete sentence written in a phonetic alphabet. [1]
Don Juan by Lord Byron (1824), an example of a "mock" epic in that it parodies the epic style of the author's predecessors [12] Camões by Almeida Garrett (1825), narrating the last years and deeds of Luís de Camões; Dona Branca by Almeida Garrett (1826), the fantastic tale of the forbidden love between Portuguese princess Branca and Moorish ...
Many publishers have lists of best books, defined by their own criteria.This article enumerates some lists for which there are fuller articles. Among them, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (Xanadu, 1985) and Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels (Grafton, 1988) are collections of 100 short essays by a single author, David Pringle, with moderately long critical introductory chapters also by ...
OpEd: If you’re not moved by the impromptu singing of the Marseillaise, perhaps the most riveting single scene in any American film, well, you might need to go see a good cardiologist.
A list of the ten best graphic novels of the period was subsequently published as a supplement to the list. [3] Watchmen (1986) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons appears on both the 100 Best Novels and 10 Best Graphic Novels lists, giving the combined lists a total of 109 entries.