1. F. Scott Fitzgerald had dozens of ideas for the title of his now legendary novel, The Great Gatsby. Some that were in the running: Trimalchio in West Egg Among Ash-Heaps and Millionaires, On the Road to West Egg, The Gold-Hatted Gatsby, and The High-Bouncing Lover.
2. As my fellow AP English IV kids know, George Orwell's futuristic 1984 was, at one time, titled The Last Man in Europe.
3. One of the titles that Bram Stoker considered before arriving at Dracula was The Dead Un-Dead.
4. There's quite an amusing story behind the title of this acclaimed piece of fiction. At first, Heller wanted to call the novel Catch-11 but because the movie Ocean's Eleven was set to hit theaters around the time of the book's release, Heller's publishers nixed the name to avoid confusion. Later, Heller proposed Catch-18 but the recent publication of Leon Uris' Mila 18 kept him from the title (again, to avoid confusion). Heller finally arrived at the number 22 by simply doubling 11.
5. My last nifty installment concerns Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand's magnum opus. Rand referred to the novel as The Strike for awhile until she decided that the title gave away too much plot detail. Her husband then suggested Atlas Shrugged.
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