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  2. List of works set within one day - Wikipedia

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    "10 Novels That Take Place in a Single Day". Flavorwire. Mullan, John (24 October 2008). "Ten of the best circadian novels". The Guardian. Barnard, Loretta (7 December 2017). "All in a day's work: Five circadian novels you should know about - The Big Smoke". The Big Smoke. Higdon, David Leon (1992). "A First Census of the Circadian or One-Day ...

  3. History of books - Wikipedia

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    The history of books starts with the development of writing, and various other inventions such as paper and printing, and continues through to the modern-day business of book printing. The earliest knowledge society has on the history of books actually predates what would conventionally be called "books" today and begins with tablets , scrolls ...

  4. Ulysses (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The novel chronicles the experiences of three Dubliners over the course of a single day, 16 June 1904, which fans of the novel now celebrate as Bloomsday. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus , the hero of Homer 's epic poem The Odyssey , and the novel establishes a series of parallels between Leopold Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and ...

  5. Category:Novels set in one day - Wikipedia

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  6. Essay - Wikipedia

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    Bacon's essays, published in book form in 1597 (only five years after the death of Montaigne, containing the first ten of his essays), [7] 1612, and 1625, were the first works in English that described themselves as essays.

  7. List of World Book Day books - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of books released for World Book Day in the UK and Ireland.In 1998 and 1999 a specially created WBD anthology priced at £1 (€1.50 in Ireland) was published.

  8. Short story - Wikipedia

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    It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest types of literature and has existed in the form of legends , mythic tales , folk tales , fairy tales , tall tales , fables , and anecdotes ...

  9. International Children's Book Day - Wikipedia

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    International Children's Book Day (ICBD) is a yearly event sponsored by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), an international non-profit organization. Founded in 1967, the day is observed on or around Hans Christian Andersen 's birthday, April 2.