Well, I think the subject should pretty well explain it. All of these works have had their more well-known titles removed, leaving only the subtitle or the remainder of the title that’s commonly left out. Your job is to figure out what title belongs in the blank space. Obviously almost all of these can be found with a quick web search, so I have only your honor not to directly search on the words.
Additional title-less works are welcome. Any variety of work can be used (like books, plays, musical compositions, movies …), as long as the ‘common title’ is reasonably well-known, which means you’d expect a fair number of dopers to recognize it.
__________ : A Season In the Wilderness
__________ or What You Will
__________ and What You Can Do About It
__________ or The Whale
__________: Adventures of a Curious Character
__________; addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the following interesting subjects.
I. Of the origin and design of government in general, with concise remarks on the English Constitution.
II. Of monarchy and hereditary succession.
III. Thoughts on the present state of American affairs.
IV. Of the present ability of America, with some miscellaneous reflexions
_________ in Prose : ( If you think about it for a bit, it just might come to you with only this much, otherwise see below for the remainder of this title, which is a giveaway hint)
I’m reasonably certain that 2 is a Shakespeare play, though I can’t remember which one; either The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labours’ Lost, or Twelfth Night.
4, Moby Dick?
Is 6 Democracy in America, by de Tocqueville?
And of course, 7 is A Christmas Carol. (Yes, I looked at the hint but everyone else did too.)
You have me stumped on the rest. But I will contribute an easy one:
Looks like all except #1 & #3 have been answered correctly; I figured those two would be the hardest. For the record, the answered ones so far are :
Twelfth Night by Wm. Shakespeare(guessed by Malchats & missbunny, finally confirmed by GrandfatherTrout)
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (answered by Malchats)
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Edward Hutchings (ed.)(answered by Taran)
Common Sense by Thomas Paine (answered by Tretiak)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (answered by Malchats) While it was probably too difficult to guess, I’d never thought about the fact that something like ‘in prose’ should follow the title.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (answered by missbunny)
Some hints –
#1 isn’t Walden, but that is a decent guess. Walden does have a subtitle, “Life in the Woods”. While there is a big difference in style, both Thoready & the author of #1 did the same sort of thing. It’s probably the most obscure title on my list (although I got the idea for the game from looking at it, so I put it in).
#3 is a title almost all of us have heard of – it’s practically become a catchphrase, although the book itself is not considered quite as important as when it came out.
Also, both of these books were written in the 20th Century.
Here’s a few new ones :
9.The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of ____________
10.Adventures of _________ Across the 8th Dimension
11.________ and what Alice found there.
12.________ into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel ________
That’s Thoreau. Henredy Davidy Thoready was the author of Waldenny’s (which was subtitled " A giant store & 24-hr restaurant in what used to be the woods".)
Thought of another one: Piano Sonata Op. 27 N.2 “________________” (this is a “reverse” one - the nickname title is much more commonly known than the real title is).