Gifts for literature fans
Know someone who loves literature? Pick their favourite topic for gift ideas, with a fact to share when they open it.
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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson used dashes in her poetry more frequently than almost any other poet.
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English Paper
English paper, despite its name, isn't always made from cotton. A significant portion is now made from wood pulp.
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Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez was a trained journalist before becoming a renowned novelist.
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Homer
Homer, the author of the *Iliad* and the *Odyssey*, is a figure shrouded in mystery; we don't even know for certain if he was a single person or a collective pseudonym.
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Interactive Fiction
The Zork series, one of the most famous Interactive Fiction games, was originally written in a programming language called MDL (specifically, MDL/Zork), not the more commonly known Infocom's own ZIL.
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Interactive Storytelling
Interactive storytelling's roots can be traced back to choose-your-own-adventure books, popularized in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Intertextuality
Intertextuality isn't just about direct quotations; it also includes allusions, parodies, and even unintentional echoes of other texts, creating a complex web of literary conversation.
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Journaling Daily
Daily journaling can improve your immune system.
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy, despite his immense literary success, renounced his copyrights, believing that his works should be freely available to all.
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Literature
The word "literally" is often used figuratively, a fact that would likely frustrate many a literary purist.
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Memoirs
The word "memoir" comes from the French word "mémoire," meaning "memory."
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Play Writing
Many playwrights use the same pen name for all their works, even if those works have very different styles.
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Poetry
The longest poem ever written is reportedly "The Mahabharata," an epic Sanskrit poem containing over 100,000 verses.
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Poetry Writing
The ancient Greeks believed that poetic inspiration, or *entheos*, was a divine possession, a temporary madness bestowed by the Muses.
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Shakespeare
Shakespeare never actually used the word "eyeball" in his works.
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Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Writing
The longest sentence in English literature is reportedly over 1,300 words long and comes from Jonathan Coe's novel *The Rotters' Club*.
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