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* ''[[A Void]]'' (and ''[[La Disparition]]'', the French novel it's a translation of) was written without using the letter E.

* ''[[Gadsby]]: A Story of Over 50000 Words Without Using the Letter "E"'' by Ernest Vincent Wright.

* [[Dr. Seuss]] wrote ''[[The Cat in the Hat]]'' as a challenge to write an interesting story using a very small vocabulary of words which a 6 year-old should know.

** Speaking of [[Dr. Seuss]], reportedly ''[[Green Eggs and Ham]]'' was a challenge to create an interesting children's story using no more than 50 different words.

* [[Jim Butcher]] wrote the ''[[Codex Alera]]'' on a bet that he could write a story using what he thought were two terrible ideas: The [[Lost Roman Legion]] and ''[[Pokémon]]''.

* [[Poul Anderson]] wrote the essay "Uncleftish Beholding" in which he described basic atomic theory and the periodic table in a manner as if English had never adopted any French, Latin, or Greek vocabulary but instead only used its Germanic roots:

{{quote|Some of the higher samesteads are splitly. That is, when a neitherbit strikes the kernel of one—as, for a showdeal, ymirstuff-235—it bursts it into lesser kernels and free neitherbits; the latter can then split more ymirstuff-235. When this happens, weight shifts into work. It is not much of the whole, but nevertheless it is awesome.}}

* ''[[wikipedia:Alphabetical Africa|Alphabetical Africa]]'' is a novel in 52 chapters, beginning with only words that start with 'a', and then 'a' and 'b', up to chapter 26, where all the alphabet can be used. From chapter 27 to 52, the letters words can start with recede back to 'a'.

 

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