<P> The opening of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 59 references Ecclesiastes 1: 9--10 . </P> <P> Leo Tolstoy's Confession describes how the reading of Ecclesiastes affected his life . </P> <P> Robert Burns' "Address to the Unco Guid" begins with a verse appeal to Ecclesiastes 7: 16 . </P> <P> The title of Ernest Hemingway's first novel The Sun Also Rises was taken from Ecclesiastes 1: 5 . </P>

To whom was the book of ecclesiastes written