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The original title of Fahrenheit 451 was The Fireman.
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And Bradbury also wrote the 1956 screenplay for Moby Dick.
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Don Quixote is the best-selling novel of all time, with over 500 million copies sold.
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Edgar Allan Poe originally wanted a parrot to repeat the word "nevermore."
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The first publisher willing to print copies of Lolita was Olympia Press.
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Charles Dickens believed in the supernatural, and he belonged to something called The Ghost Club.
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The protagonist in C.S. Lewis' science fiction trilogy was modeled after his friend and fellow author J.R.R. Tolkien.
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John Steinbeck's original manuscript for Of Mice and Men was eaten by a dog.
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Anna Karenina is over 800 pages long, but it was originally published in serialized form.
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Gabriel García Márquez refuses to allow One Hundred Years of Solitude to be made into a film.
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To Kill a Mockingbird is Harper Lee's only novel, even though it won a Pulitzer Prize and spent 88 weeks on the best seller list.
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The first edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was published in 1964 and was also pretty racist.
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Catch-22 took eight years to complete.
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The Catcher in the Rye is J.D. Salinger's only published novel, and it forced him into hiding.
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The manuscript for A Moveable Feast was stored in the basement of the Ritz Hotel in Paris.
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The band U2 borrowed a chapter title in Lord of the Flies to name one of their songs.
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Pride and Prejudice was originally titled First Impressions.
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The Monster in Frankenstein has no name, but Mary Shelley once referred to him as "Adam."
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The original title for Where the Wild Things Are was Where the Wild Horses Are, and it would've featured horses.
