What is meaning of Literature ?

Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, lived next door to Mark Twain.

Books are brilliant, they teach us so many things we may not have otherwise learned. Sometimes however it is books themselves and the people who write them that are just as interesting.

The first ever book written on a typewriter? Not a definite fact this one but something that is generally agreed upon, it’s Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

The M6 Toll Road (A Motorway in England) was built upon 2.5 million pulped copies of Mills and Boon romance novels.

Sting wrote the song ‘Every Breath You Take’ at the same desk which Ian Fleming used to write his James Bond novels. It may have helped that the desk was situated in the ‘Fleming Villa’ at GoldenEye on the island of Jamaica

The world’s most avid readers? Those from India spending an average of 10.7 hours each week reading.

Bilbo Baggins was born on September 22nd 1290.

Frank Baum named Oz after a filing cabinet that was kept in his office. One cabinet was labeled “A to N,” and the second was labeled “O to Z.”

As a schoolboy, Roald Dahl was a taste-tester for Cadbury’s chocolate, I wonder if that was the inspiration for his Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? I wonder if Cadbury has Oompa Loompas?