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Gadsby is a 1939 novel by Ernest Vincent Wright, written without words that contain the letter E, the most common letter in English. A work that deliberately avoids certain letters is known as a lipogram .
Ernest Vincent Wright (1872 – October 7, 1939) [1] was an American writer known for his book Gadsby, a 50,000-word novel which, except for four instances, did not use the letter E. Biography [ edit ]
Gadsby may refer to: Gadsby (surname) Gadsby, a 1939 novel by Ernest Vincent Wright, about its primary character John Gadsby without the letter 'E' Gadsby, Alberta, a small village in east central Alberta, Canada; W Gadsby & Son Ltd, a UK supplier of wicker baskets and gift packaging
One of the most remarkable examples of a lipogram is Ernest Vincent Wright's novel Gadsby (1939), which has over 50,000 words but not a single letter E. [12] Wright's self-imposed rule prohibited such common English words as the and he , plurals ending in -es , past tenses ending in -ed , and even abbreviations like Mr. (since it is short for ...
c. August – Ernest Vincent Wright publishes his lipogrammatic novel Gadsby, "a story of over 50,000 words without using the letter 'E'", in Los Angeles a few months before his death on October 7. August
An 83-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of injuring a man when he allegedly opened fire during a high school band competition on Saturday, Feb.1.
Wright, then a middle school teacher in the Inglewood Unified School District, was arrested in early 2022 after DNA and fingerprint evidence linked him to the killing of Pertina Epps. The 21-year ...
Ernest Vincent Wright's Gadsby (1939) is an English-language novel consisting of 50,000 words, none of which contain the letter "e". In 1969, French writer Georges Perec published La Disparition, a novel that did not include the letter "e". It was translated into English in 1995 by Gilbert Adair.