Lipogram-e

This is a dataset of 3 English books which do not contain the letter "e" in them. This dataset includes all of "Gadsby" by Ernest Vincent Wright, all of "A Void" by Georges Perec, and almost all of "Eunoia" by Christian Bok (except for the single chapter that uses the letter "e" in it)

This dataset is contributed as part of a paper titled "Most Language Models can be Poets too: An AI Writing Assistant and Constrained Text Generation Studio" to appear at COLING 2022.

This dataset and the works within them are examples of Lipograms, which are works where a letter or string is systematically omitted. Lipograms are an example of hard-constrained writing.