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:Book titles are often suggested by friends, publishers, families. "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was suggested by Orwell's publisher (Orwell had wanted "The Last Man in Europe").  
 
:Book titles are often suggested by friends, publishers, families. "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was suggested by Orwell's publisher (Orwell had wanted "The Last Man in Europe").  
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:Other Steinbeck titles are also allusions; "Of Mice and Men" to Robert Burns; "The Winter of Our Discontent" to Shakespeare (Richard the III?); "In Dubious Battle" to Milton; "East of Eden" to the book of Genesis (the entire novel alluding to BIblical themes); "Burning Bright" to Blake; all to reasonably familiar sources that readers could be expected to recognize. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 08:26, 1 March 2007 (EST)
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:Other Steinbeck titles are also allusions; "Of Mice and Men" to Robert Burns; "The Winter of Our Discontent" to Shakespeare (Richard the III?); "In Dubious Battle" to Milton; "East of Eden" to the book of Genesis (the entire novel alluding to BIblical themes); "Burning Bright" to Blake; all to reasonably familiar sources that readers could be expected to recognize. "The Grapes of Wrath" is even more familiar than any of these. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 08:26, 1 March 2007 (EST)
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