Author Topic: Title Mania! (Read 296058 times)

Frybabe · « **Reply #1880 on:** March 02, 2010, 05:56:35 PM »

The Winter's Tale
William Shakespeare

on the T from JulieT

JoanK · « **Reply #1881 on:** March 02, 2010, 09:48:06 PM »

Three Musketeers

by Dumas

on julieT

Gumtree · « **Reply #1882 on:** March 03, 2010, 01:41:57 AM »

Richard III

Willie S

on .. MusketeeRs

PatH · « **Reply #1883 on:** March 04, 2010, 02:56:31 AM »

It's hard to know what to post on here: D for ThirD, I for III, or 3. I'll go for I

I Promessi Sposi

(The Betrothed) Alessandro Manzoni

It's a classic in it's way, thought of as the greatest Italian novel, and groundbreaking in being written in ordinary Italian. I dunno about greatest, but it still reads very well (in English, I don't know Italian).

Gumtree · « **Reply #1884 on:** March 04, 2010, 03:46:30 AM »

Idylls of the King

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

on ...SposI

Manzoni - haven't read that in ages but I saw it on my shelves only a day or so ago and thought about it. Are you inside my head again PatH?

Frybabe · « **Reply #1885 on:** March 04, 2010, 09:28:02 AM »

Gallipoli
by Alan Moorehead

on the G from KinG

Gumtree · « **Reply #1886 on:** March 04, 2010, 10:35:58 AM »

Il Penseroso

John Milton

on GallipolI

PatH · « **Reply #1887 on:** March 04, 2010, 09:09:33 PM »

Orlando Furioso

Ludovico Ariosto, on PensorosO

Gumtree · « **Reply #1888 on:** March 04, 2010, 09:30:58 PM »

Oedipus Rex

Sophocles

on Orlando FuriosO

JudeS · « **Reply #1889 on:** March 05, 2010, 12:34:06 AM »

On R from Rex
Richard 11 (Perhaps Richard the Second would be better. But then both Richard and Second end in D so D it is.)
by
Shakespeare

Gumtree · « **Reply #1890 on:** March 05, 2010, 05:54:15 AM »

a 'D' huh!

Daphnis et Alcimadure

Jean de la Fontaine

On Richard II - (seconD)

JudeS · « **Reply #1891 on:** March 05, 2010, 05:46:13 PM »

On U

Up the Down Staircase
by
Bel Kaufman

JudeS · « **Reply #1892 on:** March 05, 2010, 05:52:50 PM »

OOPS I was supposed to use the R and not the U
The Rose Tattoo
by
Tennessee Williams

PatH · « **Reply #1893 on:** March 05, 2010, 08:04:04 PM »

Oresteia

Aeschylus, on TattoO

50 years ago, when I didn't know much about literature, I saw this, staged by a very good local University troupe. I was surprised at how powerful it still seems.

PatH · « **Reply #1894 on:** March 05, 2010, 08:06:40 PM »

Jude, did you read Up the Down Staircase? I thought it was a real hoot.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1895 on:** March 06, 2010, 12:49:26 AM »

Antigone

Sophocles

on OrestiA

Yes PatH the Greeks are like that. I wept when I first read Antigone. Some lines are running though my head right now. Powerful stuff.

PatH · « **Reply #1896 on:** March 06, 2010, 07:47:06 PM »

Elements of Geometry

Euclid, on AntigonE

JoanK · « **Reply #1897 on:** March 06, 2010, 07:52:18 PM »

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

PatH · « **Reply #1898 on:** March 06, 2010, 08:28:23 PM »

Mahabharata

on FarM

This incredibly long Indian epic from about 200 BC is impossible to summarize. I've seen a 1989 3 hour movie, a boiling down from a 9 hour play, and a 1929 silent movie, "A Throw of Dice" about a small but crucial episode. Checking the dates on Netflix, I see they now have a 5 DVD cartoon version for children. Hmmm.

JoanK · « **Reply #1899 on:** March 06, 2010, 09:16:06 PM »

Animal Farm

by Orwell
Hmmmm indeed!

PatH · « **Reply #1900 on:** March 06, 2010, 09:34:30 PM »

Master of Ballantrae

Robert Louis Stevenson, on FarM

JoanK · « **Reply #1901 on:** March 06, 2010, 09:37:03 PM »

Arrowsmith

PatHHave you finished altering your outfit?

PatH · « **Reply #1902 on:** March 06, 2010, 09:37:06 PM »

Did you know that the first American publisher that Orwell submitted "Animal Farm" to rejected it on the grounds that "we don't do animal stories"? Oops.

JoanK · « **Reply #1903 on:** March 06, 2010, 09:37:43 PM »

Oops.

PatH · « **Reply #1904 on:** March 06, 2010, 09:38:06 PM »

No. Why do you think I'm being so witty?

JoanK · « **Reply #1905 on:** March 06, 2010, 10:06:21 PM »

I knew you were stalling!!!

Gumtree · « **Reply #1906 on:** March 07, 2010, 12:27:55 AM »

Hedda Gabler
Henrik Ibsen

on ArrowsmitH

JudeS · « **Reply #1907 on:** March 07, 2010, 02:35:53 PM »

Pat H
Yes , I read and laughed at "Up the Down Staircase". What fun.

On R from GableR

Regeneration
by
Pat Barker
Part of a fantastic series on WW!

PatH · « **Reply #1908 on:** March 13, 2010, 07:34:50 PM »

(The) New Yorker book of Lawyer cartoons

on RegeneratioN

That's just about my last N

PatH · « **Reply #1909 on:** March 13, 2010, 07:41:20 PM »

Suggestion for rules change:

We are increasingly getting hung up on Ns. Everytime there is one, no one can answer, and I, at least, won't normally post something ending with N.

I propose that we add N to the letters that can be ignored. Seconds? Votes?

Gumtree · « **Reply #1910 on:** March 13, 2010, 11:28:27 PM »

I guess we can make whatever rules we choose. I don't really have such a problem with 'N' - maybe I haven't had to work with so many ...
so will be happy either way because I presume we can still use it if we so choose.

The Nabob

Alphonse Daudet

on ...Lawyer CartooNs

PatH · « **Reply #1911 on:** March 14, 2010, 11:50:05 AM »

(The) Boggart

Susan Cooper, on NaboB

A lighthearted children's story in which a mischievous Scottish spirit, accidentally transported to Canada, causes so much trouble that the children figure out how to lure him into a computer disc and mail him home.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1912 on:** March 15, 2010, 11:09:04 AM »

TheTale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

on BoggarT

Frybabe · « **Reply #1913 on:** March 15, 2010, 12:43:51 PM »

Sarah's Key
by Tatiana de Rosnay

on the S from CitieS

JoanK · « **Reply #1914 on:** March 15, 2010, 02:45:16 PM »

(The) Kite Runner

on Key

PatH · « **Reply #1915 on:** March 15, 2010, 04:18:21 PM »

(The) Rose Rent

Ellis Peters, on RunneR

Frybabe · « **Reply #1916 on:** March 15, 2010, 07:24:51 PM »

Tilting at Windmills
by Brian Hibb

on the T from RenT

JoanK · « **Reply #1917 on:** March 15, 2010, 08:24:53 PM »

(The) Salerymans Wife

by Sujita Massey

on windmillS

Gumtree · « **Reply #1918 on:** March 15, 2010, 10:01:16 PM »

Excalibur - A Novel of Arthur

Bernard Cornwell

on ...WifE

PatH · « **Reply #1919 on:** March 15, 2010, 11:12:47 PM »

(The) Return of the King

J. R. R. Tolkien, on ArthuR

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