More goes in to settling on a title for a book than you might think. Even if you haven't read them, the names of these 10 classic tales are instantly recognizable. If the authors hadn't changed their minds, however, these novels may not have received the attention they deserved.
起书名是个技术活,要比你想象得复杂得多。即便你没有读过下面这十本经典小说,也一定能秒速认出书名。但要是这些小说的作者当初没改变心意,这些书或许就没有那么高的知名度了。
1. VALLEY OF THE DOLLS
《娃娃谷》
Would you have read a book called They Don't Build Statues to Businessmen? Me neither. It's a good thing Jacqueline Susann chose a snappier title.
你会想读一本名叫《他们不为男商人塑像》(They Don't Build Statues to Businessmen)的书吗?我也不想读。还好杰奎琳•苏珊(Jacqueline Susann)选了个更加活泼的名字。
2. LOLITA
《洛丽塔》
Thanks to Nabokov, the word "lolita" has entered common vernacular - but that wouldn't have happened had he named his book Kingdom By the Sea, as he wrote to a friend. The name was an homage to Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Annabel Lee," because in the novel, Humbert nicknamed his first teenage love after Poe's heroine. The poem goes, "It was many and many a year ago / In a kingdom by the sea, / That a maiden there lived whom you may know / By the name of Annabel Lee."
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