What novel was written containing no words with the letter e. And who is it by?

Answer 1

the book was called Gadsby by Ernest Vincent Wright
theres an ebook of it at http://www.spinelessbooks.com/gadsby/index.html
that must have been hard 2 write, you wouldnt be able to write the and any words endeing with ed, among other things!

Answer 2

Taken From Wikipedia, Located Here.


Gadsby is a novel by Ernest Vincent Wright, written around 1939. It is famous for not containing the letter 'e'.

The lack of the letter 'e' makes Gadsby a lipogram, or an example of constrained writing. Wright explains in the introduction that he had to tape down the 'E' key of his typewriter to avoid mistakes.

The story tells how the main character, John Gadsby, transforms his home town of Branton Hills into a bustling city by tapping the vigour and original thought of youth. Quoting from its first paragraph:

"If youth, throughout all history, had a champion to stand up for it; to show a doubting world that a child can think; and, possibly, do it practically; you wouldn't constantly run across folks today who claim that "a child don't know anything." A child's brain starts functioning at birth; and has, amongst its many infant convolutions, thousands of dormant atoms, into which God has put a mystic possibility for noticing an adult's act, and figuring out its purport."

The use of odd punctuation, contrived language, and disjoint air carry on throughout the book.

Wright never saw his work in print - he died at the age of 66 on the day it was published

Answer 3

Gadsby

by: Ernest Vincent Wright

Answer 4

I don't know, but based on his love for that kind of thing, I assume it was written by Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss)