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- In the novel Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King, King first mentions the werewolf having yellow eyes. In every account afterwards and in every illustration the werewolf has green eyes.
- In various Stephen King novels, the setting is Castle Rock, Maine. This was named for the William Golding novel Lord of the Flies, where the meeting place is called the Castle Rock.
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett was rejected sixty times, and one of the rejections told Stockett that there was no place in today's literature for her works.
- (This isn't fiction trivia, but it's still crazy) According to Sir Isaac Newton, the world is going to end in 2060.
- There's a 233-page French novel called Le Train de Nulle Part (The Nowhere Train) that has no verbs in it whatsoever.
- Mark Twain said that he wanted to dig up Jane Austen and beat her in the skull with her own skeleton.
- There are three instances in Shakespearean plays where a character mentions something not yet invented in the time period of the setting: when the Anglo-Saxon Lear mentions not wanting spectacles, cannons in 1054 and 1200, and clock in the time of Caesar.
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ReplyDeleteI was looking more at "Le Train de Nulle Part" and found out that two works, "A Void" and "Gadsby" are two full-length novels that are completely devoid of the letter "e".