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A Book By Any Other Name

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Introduction:
"All best-sellers need a catchy title. Can you recognise these famous novels by their original or working titles?"


1. "All's Well That Ends Well" is a play by Shakespeare. It is also the original title of which epic novel by Leo Tolstoy?
    Crime and Punishment
    War, What is it Good For?
    Anna Karenina
    War and Peace


2. Which John Steinbeck novella was originally titled "Something that Happened" and tells the story of George Milton and Lennie Small?
    Tortilla Flat
    The Pearl
    Of Mice and Men
    Cannery Row


3. "Four and a Half Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice" was written while its author was incarcerated. By what name do we know this book?
    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    Mein Kampf
    The Pilgrim's Progress
    Crime and Punishment


4. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." This is the opening sentence of one of the most famous books in English literature. The author originally named it "First Impressions". By what name do we know this novel?
    Jane Eyre
    Sense and Sensibility
    Wuthering Heights
    Pride and Prejudice


5. "The Tree and the Blossom" was the original title of a novel by Grace Metalious. The title by which we know it is now a synonym for scandal, gossip and hypocrisy. Under what name was this instant best-seller published in 1956?
    Hollywood Wives
    Peyton Place
    Sodom and Gomorrah
    Savannah


6. Would the original title, "The Novel Without a Hero: Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society", have been as big a hit as "Vanity Fair"? Probably not. Who wrote "Vanity Fair"?
    Henry James
    John Bunyan
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    Anthony Trollope


7. D. H. Lawrence's novel, "Sons and Lovers", was originally titled with the name of the main character. What was the original title, or, if you prefer, who is the main character?
    Paul Morel
    Oliver Mellors
    Richard Somers
    Rupert Birkin


8. Which of the following names was the working title of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald?
    Trimalchio in West Egg
    Incident at West Egg
    All of these answers were working titles for this novel
    The High Bouncing Lover


9. "A Tangled Skein" was the original title for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first novel which introduced the great detective Sherlock Holmes to generations of readers. To what did Conan Doyle eventually change the title?
    The Sign of Four
    The Valley of Fear
    The Hound of the Baskervilles
    A Study in Scarlet


10. "Pansy", "Ba! Ba! Black Sheep" and "Tomorrow is Another Day" were all working titles for which Pulitzer-prize winning novel?
    Gone with the Wind
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    Life on the Mississippi
    East of Eden


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