Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, Gadsby, with over 50,000 words. It speciality is it is written as a lipogram and does not include words that contain the letter "e".
What is a lipogram? A lipogram is a kind of constrained writing or word game consisting of writing paragraphs or longer works in which a particular letter or group of letters is avoided — usually a common vowel, and frequently "E", the most common letter in the English language.
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