In 1939 Ernest Vincent Wright wrote an 50,000-word novel without using a single letter e. Wright's Gadsby tells the story of a determined 50-year-old who rallies young people to revitalize their ...

So there are easier letters to omit if you decide to construct a lipogram—a text that deliberately omits a particular letter—no ... Gadsby is a 50,000 word novel—and there’s not an "E ...