Now All We Need Is a Title: Famous Book Titles and How They Got That Way

"An entertaining little book. . . . It is a good thing that writers have to keep struggling for the right title, to judge from Bernard's amusing evidence."—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times André Bernard has researched the stories behind more than one hundred of the most famous titles in the English language to produce a fascinating volume rich in literary anecdote and publishing lore. The Great Gatsby was almost titled Trimalchio in West Egg, while some unknown editor told William ...