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Don’t Judge a Book by Its Title

Match the final title with the author’s working title.

  1. Catch-18
  2. He Do the Police in Different Voices
  3. The Last Man in Europe
  4. The Kingdom by the Sea
  5. Trimalchio in West Egg
  6. A Jewish Patient Begins His Analysis
  7. Exorcism
  8. The Whale
  9. At This Point in Time
  10. Ernest Pontifex
  11. First Impressions
  12. The Fool of the Family
  13. Please Do Not Erase
  14. Tom-All-Alone’s Factory That Got into Chancery and Never Got Out
  15. The Brasher Doubloon
  16. Four and a Half Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity, and Cowardice
  17. Pansy
  18. Monteriano
  19. Private Fleming, His Various Battles
  20. The Salinas Valley
  1. 1. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, 1813
  2. 2. Moby Dick, Herman Melville, 1851
  3. 3. Bleak House, Charles Dickens, 1853
  4. 4. The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane, 1895
  5. 5. The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler, 1903
  6. 6. Where Angels Fear to Tread, E.M. Forster, 1905
  7. 7. The Playboy of the Western World, John Millington Synge, 1907
  8. 8. The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot, 1922
  9. 9. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
  10. 10. Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler, 1925
  11. 11. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, 1936
  12. 12. The High Window, Raymond Chandler, 1942
  13. 13. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell, 1949
  14. 14. East of Eden, John Steinbeck, 1952
  15. 15. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
  16. 16. Catch-22, Joseph Heller, 1961
  17. 17. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee, 1962
  18. 18. Up the Down Staircase, Bel Kaufman, 1964
  19. 19. Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth, 1969
  20. 20. All the President’s Men, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, 1974

Answers

1. K; 2. H; 3. N; 4. S; 5. J; 6. R; 7. L; 8. B; 9. E; 10. P; 11. Q; 12. O; 13. C; 14. T; 15. D; 16. A; 17. G; 18. M; 19. F; 20. I