Everyone’s favorite billionaire Bill Gates bought ‘Codex Leicester’, one of Leonardo Di Vinci’s scientific journals for $30.8 million.

2. Longest book in the world:

‘A la recherche du temps perdu’ by Marcel Proust is the longest book in the world at 9,609,000 characters. Translated into Remembers of Things Past, the book tells the story of the narrator’s experiences growing up.

3. Roald Dahl’s interesting life experiences:

Dahl served in the Royal Air Force during World War II and also tested chocolates for Cadbury’s while he was at school. (I guess we know where his inspiration for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory came from).

5. Victor Hugo’s 823 word long sentence:

In Victor Hugo’s novel, Les Miserables, you can find a sentence that is 823 words long. However, there may be other sentences that surpasses this length. But this one is worth knowing.

6. J.K. Rowling is not actually her name:

Our favorite author who goes by initials, actually doesn’t have a middle name. After a suggestion from her publisher, she chose her grandmother’s name, Kathleen.

7. Charles Dickens’ superstitious behaviour:

Dickens believed that sleeping facing North, would improve his writing. He also carried a compass when travelling to make sure he was facing the right direction and he always touched things 3 times for luck.

8. Tolstoy owes War and Peace to his wife’s efforts:

The 1400 page novel was copied around 7 times by Leo Tolstoy’s wife, Sophia, by hand – that’s love.

9. The words F. Scott Fitzgerald created that you use everyday:

Oxford English Dictionary notes the earliest use of the word ‘wicked’ to mean good/cool to be from Fitzgerald’s novel ‘This Side of Paradise’. He is also thought to have used the word T-shirt for the first time.

10. The children’s story that China banned:

The Governor of Hunan Province in China banned Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland because he believed that animals should not be given the power to use the language of humans and to put animals and humans on the same level would be ‘disastrous’.

It is a noun that means to laugh because you are amused or pleased by something.

How do you pronounce it?

[chawr-tl]

or

[chor·tle]

Where does it come from?

We can thank Lewis Carroll for this delightful word. It is a combination of two words: chuckle and snort. Lewis Carroll used the term chortle in his book, Through the Looking-Glass (1871).

How do you use it?

Whenever the girl told a joke, her uncle let out a huge chortle.

J.D. Salinger                                       

(January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010)

Jerome David “J. D.” Salinger was an American writer who won acclaim early in life. He led a very private life for more than a half-century. His novel, The Catcher in the Rye (1951) brought him a lot of public attention-which he did not like. He published Franny and Zooey in 1961 and gave his last interview in 1980.

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E. M. Forster                                     

(January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970)

Edward Morgan Forster was an English novelist, short story writer and essayist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster’s 1924 novel, A Passage to India brought him his greatest success.

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Isaac Asimov

(January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992)

Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books, such as I, Robot. Asimov was prolific and wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards and was considered one of the “Big Three” science fiction writers during his lifetime.

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Jacob Grimm                                     

(January 4, 1785 – September 20, 1863)

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm was a German philologist, jurist and mythologist. He is known as the discoverer of Grimm’s Law, and as one of the Brothers Grimm (with his brother Wilhelm), as the editor of Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

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Stella Gibbons                                  

(January 5, 1902 – December 19, 1989)

Gibbons was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932), which won the literary Prix Femina Étranger and has been reprinted many times.

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Wilkie Collins 

(January 8, 1824 – September 23, 1889)

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known work is The Woman in White.

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Jack London

(January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)

John Griffith “Jack” London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild, set in the Klondike Gold Rush.

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Magdalen Nabb

(January 16, 1947 – August 18, 2007)

Nabb was a British author, best known for the Marshal Guarnaccia detective novels such as Death of an Englishman.

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Edgar Allan Poe

(January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849)

Poe was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. His most famous works include The Tell-Tale Heart, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Masque of the Red Death and The Pit and the Pendulum.

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Edith Wharton  

(January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937)

Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. The Age of Innocence was Wharton’s twelfth book which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making it the first novel written by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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W. Somerset Maugham                                

(January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965)

William Somerset Maugham was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s. He is most remembered for his novels: Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, Theatre, The Painted Veil and The Summing Up.

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Virginia Woolf                                   

(January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941)

Woolf was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. Her most famous works include the novels: Orlando: A Biography, Between the Acts, The Common Reader and A Room of One’s Own.

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Lewis Carroll                                      

(January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898)

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Author: Lewis Carroll

ISBN:9780140620863

There, on top of the mushroom, was a large caterpillar, smoking a pipe. After a while the Caterpillar took the pipe out of its mouth and said to Alice in a slow, sleepy voice, “Who are you?”

What strange things happen when Alice falls down the rabbit-hole and into Wonderland! She has conversations with the Caterpillar and the Cheshire Cat, goes to the Mad Hatter’s tea party, plays croquet with the King and Queen of Heart…

Price: 15,9 GEL

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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

Author: Lewis Carroll, Jennifer Bassett

ISBN: 9780194227490

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There is a novel written by Lewis Carroll, the sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. It is based on his meeting with another Alice, Alice Raikes.

Set some six months later than the earlier book, Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it.

Price: 4 GEL

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The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

ISBN: 9780141198972

Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in these tales, including – among others – the bloody, brutal and baffling murder of a mother and daughter in Paris in The Murders in the Rue Morgue, the creeping insanity of The Tell-Tale Heart, and the Gothic nightmare of The Masque of the Red Death.

Price: 14,9GEL

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