Original Titles of Famous Books

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1. This Jane Austen novel was published in 1831. Her first idea was to call it, appropriately for a working title, "First Impression". Then she changed her mind. What was the final choice with which the book became a hit, and still is? Answer: (Three Words, one is "and". Five daughters. No quotation marks please.)

2. "All's Well That Ends Well" is Shakespeare's, but also Leo Tolstoi's first title for his huge novel, published in 1866. Which Tolstoi novel includes Napoleon as a character and depicts with rare skill some famous battle scenes? The Kreutzer Sonata War and Peace Resurrection Anna Karenina

3. Joseph Heller almost did it at the first attempt: an excerpt of "Catch-22" published in a magazine had another title. Can you guess which one? (Will it help to know it is the same number of the year in which Muriel Spark and Mickey Spillane were born?) Catch-18 Catch-17 Catch-11 Catch-14

4. "Village Virus" was the original title of this novel by Sinclair Lewis that tells a story of a metropolitan girl trying to live in a small town in the American Midwest after marriage. By what title is this book known? Babbitt Elmer Gantry Main Street Arrowsmith

5. What was the original title chosen for "The Great Gatsby"? If you've read the book, it'll be easy for you to guess it. Misfortune at South Cornflake Meeting at East Pancake Incident at West Egg Accident at North Porridge

6. William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" is another of a million titles taken from Shakespeare (this one from "Macbeth"). But which was the original title, that could make you think of a vampire story? The Yoknapatawpha Diaries What Quentin Knew What Benji Saw Twilight

7. Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" had a different title that has been used for many foreign editions. Under which title did I read the book for the first time (and also the last) in the Italian version? Fiesta Pamplona Corrida Gazpacho

8. To find the right title for her masterpiece was a real problem for Margaret Mitchell: in the end she borrowed a line from an Ernest Dawson poem and called the book "Gone With the Wind". But among the first choices, which immortal line from the book itself was considered? Frankly I Don't Give a Damn How Fickle Is Woman Cotton and Slaves and Arrogance Tomorrow is Another Day

9. "Something That Happened" is not much of a title, is it? Maybe that's why John Steinbeck found something more memorable for this novel and used a fragment of a Robert Burns's poem. A little help: one of the main characters is called Lennie Small. Now, which very famous novel is it? Of Mice and Men In Dubious Battle The Grapes of Wrath East of Eden

10. How was James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" originally titled? If you know the Christian name of the main character, Dedalus, you'll guess it right. Stephen Hero Lawrence Hero James Hero John Hero