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For decades, American readers got A Clockwork Orange without its redemptive final chapter

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The first author in history signed her own name

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The oldest great story we still read is 4,000 years old

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Mary Shelley dreamed up Frankenstein at 18, trapped indoors by a volcanic summer

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Frankenstein Was Published Anonymously

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Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time

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George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was published on 8 June 1949

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Shakespeare gave us the first record of 1,700-plus words

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The world's first novel was written by a woman around 1010

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10 Jan 1776

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Thomas Paine Publishes Common Sense

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12 Jan 1976

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Agatha Christie, the best-selling novelist, leaves a record legacy

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29 Jan 1845

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Poe's "The Raven" Takes Flight

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20 Mar 1852

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Uncle Tom's Cabin sold out its first run in a single week

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24 Apr 1800

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The Library of Congress was established

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26 Apr 1564

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Shakespeare's baptism, written in a borrowed Latin line

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27 Apr 1667

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Milton Sold Paradise Lost for Five Pounds

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25 Jun 1947

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Anne Frank's diary was first published

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27 Aug 1955

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The first Guinness Book of Records was published

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