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Gadsby

Ernest Vincent Wright

Book Overview: 

Fifty-year-old John Gadsby is alarmed by the decline of his hometown, Branton Hills, and rallies the city's young people to form an "Organization of Youth" to build civic spirit and improve living standards. Gadsby and his youthful army, despite some opposition, transform Branton Hills from a stagnant municipality into a bustling, thriving city. Toward the end of the book the members of Gadsby's organization receive diplomas in honor of their work. Gadsby becomes mayor and helps increase Branton Hills' population from 2,000 to 60,000. The story begins around 1906 and continues through World War I, Prohibition, and President Warren G. Harding's administration.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .sparkling fountains, and bursts of glory, shot, in criss-cross paths, up and down, back and forth, across a star-lit sky; providing a display without a par in local annals.

But not only did Youth thrill at so fantastic a show. Adults had many a Fourth of July brought back from a distant past; in which our national custom wound up our most important holiday with a similar display; only, in our Fourths of long ago, horrifying, gigantic concussions would disturb old folks and invalids until midnight; at which hour, according to law, all such carrying-on must stop. But did it? Possibly in your town, but not around my district! All Fourth of July outfits don't always function at first, you know; and no kid, (or adult!) would think of quitting until that last pop should pop; or that last bang should bang. And so, many a dawn on July fifth found things still going, full blast.

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Community Reviews

Okay, not to spoil the book for you... but there's no letter "e".

That's it.

I can really only recommend this book as a curiosity, and a pretty good curiosity it is, but I can't recommend the story. After 20,000 words it felt like I was pulling teeth with every page because Nothing Happens! Then afte

I was told of this book, which was fully intact, without containing any sign of a particularly familiar symbol. Upon finishing this work, I now call out for a book contribution that maintains a similar constraint AND contains a stimulating plot. To put it bluntly, this particular story is simply bor

Rating: 3 stars

A limitation such as this is simply taking it too far, don't you think? It's just so constricting, for all 50,000+ words to not contain such a common thing as E. Upon starting this book, I thought that it was simply too hard. You just can't say what you want to say. Just think, so man

(Every other review mimics Wright's exceptional feat of avoiding the letter 'e' so I have decided to evade this by putting an 'e' at the beginning of each sentence and every paragraph and generally exploiting it wherever possible.)

Egads, Gadsby!

Easy is not a word that enters the mind when first rea

What can I say about this work from Anno Domini forty-four multiply forty-four plus four plus unity. It is distinct in that it has lost a thing amounting to an unusual four AIOU only, with a missing particular alpha-symbol. As I try to construct a summary I find I'm in Wright's location of mind - hm

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