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Before Stanley Kubrick came on-board for A Clockwork Orange writer Anthony Burgess considered selling the movie rights to Mick Jagger with the intention of Jagger playing Alex and the rest of the Stones playing the other Droogs. Keef with eyeliner? Don’t be silly!

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Cadbury's chocolates were actually tasted by Roald Dahl, who wrote 'Charlie and the Chocolate factory!'

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Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island, formally gave away his birthday to an American girl while he was living in Samoa. The reason he did this was because the young girl, A. H. Ide, had her birthday on Christmas, so she didn’t get as many presents as her friends!

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William Makepeace Thackeray wasted his father’s inheritance of £20,000 on gambling and risky investments in the 1830s. It wasn’t until he published the first edition of his famous Vanity Fair in 1847 that he gained financial stability and prestige!

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Controversial American author Charles Bukowski was definitely a cat person. He actually wrote an entire book called On Cats. In one section of this book, Bukowski says he only has to look at a cat to regain his courage!

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William Golding‘s masterpiece Lord of the Flies really struck a chord with big name rock bands. U2 took the name of their song “Shadows and Tall Trees” from chapter seven of Golding’s novel, and Iron Maiden released a track called “Lord of the Flies!”

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Alexis de Tocqueville initially traveled to the USA in 1830 to study America’s prison system. At the end of his travels, Tocqueville’s fellow traveler Gustave Beaumont wrote the majority of the penal system study while Tocqueville worked on his influential Democracy in America!

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Stephen Crane wrote the greatest Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage, even though he was born five years after the war ended. When asked how he was able to write battle scenes with such accuracy, Crane said that he learned all he needed to know about war from football!

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Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë certainly had a faithful pooch. Her dog, named Keeper, actually followed Brontë’s coffin to her gravesite in 1848 and was said to whimper by Emily’s room for weeks after her burial!

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Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll was banned in China since the book highlights talking animals and birds, which was disastrous, according to the Chinese Governor!