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Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables contains an 823-word-long sentence.
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Ernest Hemingway lived in Key West, FL, throughout the 1930s. Today the city holds an annual Ernest Hemingway lookalike competition.
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With 500 million copies sold, the 16th-century Spanish novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes is the best-selling novel in history.
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First serialized in 1836, The Pickwick Papers was Charles Dickens' first full novel. He was 24 years old.
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Bill Gates spent $30.8 million on a copy of the Codex Leicester by Leonardo Di Vinci.
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The K in J.K. Rowling's name stands for Kathleen, although her full name is simply Joanne Rowling. The K was added to honor her grandmother.
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Agatha Christie is estimated to have sold over two billion books.
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Agatha Christie's fictional detective Hercule Poirot is from Belgium. By 1960, Christie hated writing about him but did so because he was so popular.
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Born and raised in Maine, Stephen King uses the state as a backdrop to many of his novels.
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Winnie-the-Pooh was banned in Russia because he was deemed to be pro-Nazi.