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• ...that Edgar Allan Poe satirized the concept of a self-made man in his story "The Business Man" using a character that makes his fortune cutting the tails off cats?
• ...that a description of the Battle of Aspern-Essling written by Patrick Rambaud as The Battle was originally a project of Honoré de Balzac?
• ...that the Iceberg Theory refers to Ernest Hemingway's (pictured) distinctive writing style?

Source

1. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/February#15 February 2008, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
2. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/March#19 March 2010, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
3. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/April#25 April 2010, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.