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INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT BOOKS  In the book “Les Miserable” by Victor Hugo, there is one sentence that contains 823 words  It took 36 years for Noah Webster to write his first dictionary.  One out of every eight letters you read is the letter “e”  There have been over 20,000 books written about the game of Chess.  Interestingly, William Shakespeare invented the word “hurry.”  Charles Dickens had to be facing north before he could write a word. MARY CHRISTEENA VIIB