Answers to Book Title Quiz, Part 1

The correct versions of the titles are as follows:

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea

For Whom the Bell Tolls

A Farewell to Arms

The Sun Also Rises

William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury

As I Lay Dying

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

Tender Is the Night

Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence

John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath

Willa Cather

Death Comes for the Archbishop

James Fenimore Cooper

The Last of the Mohicans

Herman Melville

Moby Dick

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter

Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage

Jack London

The Call of the Wild

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

Do you know the sources of some of the above titles?

The Bible and some early poets supply a few of the original title wordings.  For example, "the sun also rises" is a phrase that appears in the Bible (Book of Ecclesiastes).

The "sound and (the) fury" originates in Wm. Shakespeare's MacBeth. The famous phrase "for whom the bell tolls" is from the pen of John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions.

Book Title Quiz, Extra Credit

Can you supply correct titles for the additional books whose false titles are listed below?

Count L. N. Tolstoy

Combat and Tranquillity

Marcel Proust

Recalling Early Memories

John Milton

Heaven Lost and Heaven Recovered

Robert Burton

Taxonomy of Sadness

Charles Dickens

The Old Oddities Store

Jane Austen

Hubris and Bias

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Felony and Retribution

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