Surfing the internet we have found an interesting article on the Curiosidatos website, in which ten Interesting Facts about books and the world of literature that are quite interesting.
We have highlighted six of them that we find especially curious and here we offer them so that you can hallucinate with some of the data that said website offers us.
We encourage you if you know other information Amazing About everything that surrounds literature and the world of books, please send them to us through comments in this same article so that together we can collect this type of curious facts that we love to know as passionate about print:
Literary curiosities:
- The term best seller was used for the first time in 1889 in The Kansas Times & Star newspaper, in a newspaper article it was talked about the best-selling books. But the term began to be used popularly from April 9, 1942, when the New York Times released "The New York Times Best Seller List" and since then the phrase is a reference in the world of literature.
-In the 117.000th century, the Persian vizier Abdul Kassem Ismael had a library of 400 books which were carried on the humps of XNUMX trained camels to carry them in alphabetical order.
-The smallest book in the world measures 1 × 1 millimeters and was published in 1985. The title is 'Old King Cole', of which 85 copies were printed. To use its pages you have to have a pin.
-The most expensive book in the world costs 153 million euros. This one belongs to Thomas Alexander Hartman and has only thirteen written pages.
-In ancient Egypt, libraries were called the "treasures of the remedies of the soul" because they could 'cure' ignorance, the most dangerous of diseases.
-The novelist who has written the most novels in history is Ryoki Inoue, a Brazilian writer who has published 1.072 novels. He currently publishes six jobs a month.
More information - Literary anecdotes
Photo - EEA Books
Source - Curious
The first novel written entirely on a typewriter was Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer.
I'm interested in everything about literature
and the name of the most expensive book. 153 million euros wow
Wuauu very interesting ...