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An entire novel without the letter ‘e’

Fact - Gadsby, a novel with over 50,000 words, written by Ernest Vincent Wright has no occurrence of the most common alphabet, 'e'.
Pic Credits: © 2010 Jo Naylor | book open 2 | CC BY-SA | Modified

Ernest Vincent Wright’s novel, Gadsby, has 50,000 words but no occurrence of the letter ‘e’.

The alphabet ‘e’ is the most common of all… but not in this book!

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