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Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Vincent_Wright
TIL that in 1939 Ernest Vincent Wright wrote and published a 50,000 word novel, ‘Gadsby’ which does not contain the letter ‘e’ . A warehouse containing most copies of the book burned down.
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I guess the warehouse had no *mrgncy xits*.
French author Georges Perec did it too in a book named “La Disparition” published in 1969
Check out [oulipo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo?wprov=sfla1) for more.
The perfect book for /r/AVoid5/
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TIL of Wright’s 50,000-word book, Gadsby, containing no Es; Gadsby’s only print run was mostly lost in a conflagration.
FTFY
“Burn’d”
How did the author put his name on it? It contains the letter E.