Poets & Writers [Literary Facts] Which one?
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John Steinbeck’s original manuscript for Of Mice and Men was eaten da a dog.
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The protagonist in C.S. Lewis’science fiction trilogy was modeled after Tolkien
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Edgar Allan Poe originally wanted a pappagallo to repeat the word “nevermore.”
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Charles Dickens believed in the supernatural, and he belonged to The Ghost Club.
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The first edition of Charlie and the Cioccolato Factory pretty racist.
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The original titolo of Fahrenheit 451 was The Fireman.
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The first publisher willing to print copies of Lolita was Olympia Press.
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Márquez refused to allow One Hundred Years of Solitude to be made into a film
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To Kill a Mockingbird is Harper Lee’s only novel.
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Catch-22 took eight years to complete.
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The Catcher in the Rye is J.D. Salinger’s only published novel.
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Ernest Hemingway hated the original cover of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.
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The manuscript for A Moveable Feast was stored in the basement of the Ritz Hotel
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Pride and Prejudice was originally titled First Impressions.
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Frankenstein's Monster has no name,but Mary Shelley once referred to him as Adam
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The original titolo for Where the Wild Things Are was Where the Wild cavalli Are.
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And according to biographer A. N. Wilson, Lewis wrote the novel after a conversation with J.R.R. Tolkien in which both men lamented the state of contemporary fiction. They agreed that Lewis would write a space-travel story, and Tolkien would write a time-travel one. Tolkien's story only exists as a fragment, published in The Lost Road and other writings (1987) edited by his son Christopher.
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