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Revision as of 17:17, September 7, 2021
| Book Title | Author | Sales | Inspiration for Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gone With the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 28 million[1] | Title taken by the author from a poem.[2] |
| 1984 | George Orwell | 30 million | |
| This Side of Paradise | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 50,000 through 1921 | |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | Title is from a famous poem. | |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | Title is from the famous song The Battle Hymn of the Republic, which took the concept from the Book of Revelation. Steinbeck's first wife helped him pick this title, after he struggled to find a good one. | |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| Absalom, Absalom! | William Faulkner | 2 Samuel 19:4 (Old Testament) | |
| Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | A stopping point on the pilgrim's route in the evangelical classic Pilgrim's Progress | |
| Liar's Poker | Michael Lewis | ||
| Bonfire of the Vanities | Tom Wolfe | ||
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) | Victor Hugo | ||
| Les Miserables (1862) | Victor Hugo |
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References
- ↑ https://ew.com/article/1992/01/17/gone-wind-numbers/
- ↑ From Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson: “I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng, Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind." [1]