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  2. List of most expensive books and manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.

  3. Lists of books - Wikipedia

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    Bokklubben World Library; Children's classic books; Great Books of the Western World; Harvard Classics; Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century; Literary Taste: How to Form It; Major English dictionaries; Modern Library's 100 Best Novels; Most expensive books and manuscripts; Ninety-Nine Novels; Time's List of the 10 Best Graphic Novels; The Top ...

  4. The Rotters' Club (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The book was followed by two sequels. The book contains one of the longest sentences in English literature, with 13,955 words. The Rotters' Club was inspired by Bohumil Hrabal's Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age: a Czech language novel that consisted of one great sentence. [4]

  5. List of top book lists - Wikipedia

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    The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: 1998 [1] Crime Writers' Association: The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time: 1990 [2] [3] Grafton Books by David Pringle: Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels: 1988 Larry McCaffery: 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction: 1999 Le Monde: Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century ...

  6. List of literary works by number of translations - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Mormon: See Origin of the Book of Mormon: 1830: 115 [15] English: 13 Asterix: René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo: 1959–present: 115 [16] (not all volumes are available in all languages) French: 14 The Quran: See History of the Quran: 650 >114 [17] [18] Classical Arabic: 15 The Way to Happiness: L. Ron Hubbard: 1980: 114 [19] English ...

  7. Sentences - Wikipedia

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    The Sentences (Latin: Sententiae in quatuor IV libris distinctae; Sententiarum. English: Sentences Divided into Four Books; Sentences) is a compendium of Christian theology written by Peter Lombard around 1150. It was the most important religious textbook of the Middle Ages.

  8. Man given Britain's 'shortest ever' prison sentence, spends ...

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    A man in the U.K. spent as much time behind bars as it takes to watch an episode of Stranger Things after receiving what is being called the country's shortest ever prison sentence.. Shane Jenkins ...

  9. Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes - Wikipedia

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    Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes", also known simply as "Fleas", is a couplet commonly cited as the shortest poem ever written, composed by American poet Strickland Gillilan in the early 20th century. [1] The poem reads in full: