Did you know that of the 14 kisses found in Jane Austen’s novels, only 3 involve lip contact between a man and a woman, and 1 involves a man kissing a severed lock of hair? I certainly didn’t.
This week’s post about Alan Moore’s Jerusalem made me curious about the quirks and oddities of renowned literature. Though plenty of studies and well researched theses could tell me all about various words and kisses in novels, I found myself attracted to the ‘Famous Literature: Words by Numbers’ infograph created by Cartridge Discount. The below image is in no way an all-encompassing analysis of world literature, but it provides a fun look a several popular titles, and I couldn’t help but share it.
Feel free to share any of your own trivia about novels as well! I find this stuff fascinating.
Such a great infographic! 😀
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I love things like this! They are so fun.
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This is amazing! Do you know of any infographics software, inexpensive or publicly available? I did a google search, there are some available online but I just want to check if you recommend anything.
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That’s a great question! There are a couple of free/open source products that are good for beginners.
Venngage has both a free and a purchased version. Using the free version, you have a set of templates you can choose from though I believe you can only build a certain number of infographs per month.
Dipity is good if you want to create an interactive timeline. It’s free and allows people co click in more deeply to various dates/times and engage with videos, images, etc.
Visme has 20 free infograph templates that you can use. (Some of them are more attractive than others…)
Piktochart also has some really great free templates that are fun to use.
Unfortunately the issue with most of these products is that though many of them have a free version, the purchased version is always very tempting. Regardless, hopefully these will be enough to get you started. If you create anything that you plan to share, let me know! I’d love to see it.
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Thank you very much for the providing this excellent list. I will start with Venngage. I will probably use it for a simple recipe, as a practice, for now. I will let you know how the recipe turns out using an infograph. 🙂 Have a wonderful day. Thanks again!
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My pleasure!
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Here is the infographic recipe we came up with (using Venngage) after you provided the names of the tools this morning: http://settleinelpaso.com/index.php/2016/09/15/easy-shrimp-recipe/
Thank you! 🙂
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You’re welcome! It turned out so well, and the recipe looks delicious. I’ll have to try it sometime!
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Thanks for visiting the recipe page!
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Aargh! I’ll be reading Gone with the Wind soon and am horrified to see it’s longer than Bleak House! Still, at least it’s shorter than War and Peace, eh? 😉
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I never did make through ‘War and Peace’. (I probably shouldn’t admit that though.) Hopefully you’ll have better luck with ‘Gone with the Wind’!
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Very interesting and entertaining post, Kristen! I wonder how many people are aware of MacKinlay Kantor’s novel-in-verse, GLORY FOR ME. Written in 1945, it was quickly adapted for the screen as the movie THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES. It won the Academy Award for “Best Picture” in 1946. This “epic poem” and movie chronicles the lives of several World War Two veterans and their struggles to adapt back into society after the war. Great book and great movie!
–Michael
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It sounds interesting! It’s strange which books are remembered and which ones are forgotten. Thanks for mentioning it here; I’ll have to check it out.
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Reblogged this on e. michael helms and commented:
Kristen Twardowski’s excellent post about fun facts of great literature. Don’t miss it!
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This is so cool! I think I might share this one 😀
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I’m glad you enjoyed it! I think it’s pretty fun too.
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Hi ! Just wanted to let you know I nominated you for an award. In case …
I did the post a while back but I had such a busy schedule, I failed to inform you.
Hope you don’t mind. Thanks for following me and I enjoy all your blog posts! Keep them coming!
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Thanks for letting me know! I really appreciate it. I loved reading your ‘7 Facts’!
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Thanks!
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Saddest story; For Sale, baby shoes…
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I know, right? A gut punch.
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Ulysses is more than 250,000 words? I can’t believe I read that book – twice! (It was for university).
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I think sometimes it is better for people not to know how many words something is. 250,000 seems like a lot, but obviously you persevered (twice!), so it wasn’t unmanageable.
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Reblogged this on The Vanishing Writer.
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I would have expected to see Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa – at nearly a million words, in the ‘long’ list – or did I miss that.
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Good catch! I think you are right about the oversight. Some of those epistolary novels can be quite long, but I suppose part of that is because in this case, Richardson hoped that people would learn from Clarissa’s misfortunes.
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But you have to admit Richardson is something of a preacher and does go on a bit.
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Oh, most definitely. The work could have used a bit of cutting. Unfortunately I can’t quite remember if Richardson was from the era in which writers were paid by the word; if he was, I can understand the droning a bit more. (Lord knows if someone was paying me by the word, I would always find more to say.)
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Great post ❤
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Thank you!
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