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A collection of poker stories. Author is believed to be another pseudonym of S. W. Erdnase. [6] The Autobiography of a Flea, erotic novel published in 1901. The Expert at the Card Table by S. W. Erdnase, a book on sleight-of-hand with cards for card advantage play and magic, self-published in 1902 in Chicago.
This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
Frederik Pohl: For Some We Loved (1944), about New York advertising agencies; burned by author, who described it as "a long, complicated, and very bad novel" J.D. Salinger: He continued writing through the last half-century of his long life, while he lived as a recluse. This consists of as one or two unpublished novels and possibly more than ...
The author talked about his experience being imprisoned in a "Vietnamese Gulag" for "Anti-revolutionary propaganda" [312] The book was banned with all copies ordered to be destroyed following the Decision No. 395 Regulation of the then Ministry of Culture and Information for violating Clauses 1 and 2 of the Article 33, Publishing Law. Which ...
This image of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by an anonymous photographer was chosen as the most famous picture by The Photograph Book (1997) (ISBN 0-7148-3937-X), a book of 500 photographs by 500 famous photographers. Anonymous works are works, such as art or literature, that have an anonymous, undisclosed, or unknown creator or author. In the ...
Fantasy with an alternate history undercurrent. History unfolded much as it did in our world, except that magic took the place of science. For example, Adolf Hitler waged a brutal war in the 20th century with magic weapons, Werner Heisenberg defined the uncertainty principle of thaumaturgy, and flying carpets take the place of automobiles ...
This is a list of notable works of dystopian literature. A dystopia is an unpleasant (typically repressive) society, often propagandized as being utopian. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction states that dystopian works depict a negative view of "the way the world is supposedly going in order to provide urgent propaganda for a change in direction."
Author Date Number of languages with source Original language 1 The Bible: See Authorship of the Bible: See Dating the Bible: 3,384 (at least one book) 2,191 (at least New Testament) 698 (Old and New Testaments, including the Protocanonical books) [1] Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic, Koine Greek: 2 The Little Prince: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ...