Ripley’s Believe It or Not!: Fairy Tales & Literature

    (Schanes, 1993)
™ and ©1993 Ripley Entertainment, Inc. Published by Schanes Products.

Steve Schanes’ licensing deal with Ripley’s allowed him to produce this, and nearly a dozen other related titles during the early 1990s. In the Ripley’s tradition, this series brings a collection of startling and near-unbelievable facts—here concentrating on the great figures in literature.

Among the surprises contained here:
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (author of Crime and Punishment) was to be shot for treason, but was reprieved mere moments before the execution was to take place.
• The Adventures of Pinocchio was penned by its author to pay off a gambling debt.
• Les Misérables contains the longest known sentence in literature: 823 words, covering three pages!
• The poetess Emily Dickinson considered herself so unattractive that she would only converse with visitors from a different room, talking through an open door!
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