There are so many books that have been retitled ( usually with much better names ) , I could n’t just discontinue at the10 - 10 - 10 list . Here are 10 more book who were almost call something else - you have to marvel if a different rubric might have exchange their level of popularity .
1 .
Animal Farm
was first published as
Animal Farm : A Fairy Story
. But there ’s also
2 .
Steinbeck ’s
East of Eden
could have end up any phone number of thing :
. He in the end decided on the final form of address after he wrote 16 verses of Cain and Abel into the novel and bumble upon the set phrase .
3
.
Treasure Island
is the classic title of respect we get laid today , but when it was originally serialize in a children ’s magazine it was called
4 .
The first version of
Alice ’s Adventures in Wonderland
- that is , the handwritten written matter Lewis Carroll give to his muse , Alice Pleasance Liddell - was anticipate
and contained his own representative . There ’s speculation that an even earlier copy once subsist but may have been destruct by Carroll .
5.Tennessee Williams’The Glass Menageriewas first calledThe Gentleman Callerand was save with Ethel Barrymore and Judy Garland in judgement .
6.Would a novel calledThe Stillness in the WaterorLeviathan Risinghave made such a great horror moving-picture show ? Since it was retitledJawsbefore publication , we ’ll never know .
7.Steinbeck was an amazing writer , to be sure , but an amazing titler … maybe not . Before reading Robert Burns ’ poemTo a Mouse , Of Mice and Menwas start to be calledSomething That Happened .
8.For quite some time , Tolstoy’sWar and Peacewas simply called1805 . And toSeinfeldfans , it ’ll always beWar : What Is It Good For ?
9.Before Mark Twain wrote the follow up toThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer , he was thinking about yell itHuckleberry Finn ’s Autobiography . Of course , he ended up calling itAdventures of Huckleberry Finninstead .
10.The Bridges of Madison Countywas first published in the U.K. asLove in Black and White .
