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Seems like a return to book titles of the past, which often were a short summary of the whole book: https://evareadsbooks.wordpress.com/tag/really-long-old-book
by icebraining 7y ago
Seems like a return to book titles of the past, which often were a short summary of the whole book: https://evareadsbooks.wordpress.com/tag/really-long-old-book-titles-a-series/ https://evareadsbooks.wordpress.com/tag/really-long-old-book...
- WorldMaker 7y agoI do find it amusing for its retro sensibility from the times when it was easier to typeset additional words on a thing than images or illustrations.
- Freak_NL 7y agoI love them: > Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships Or another all time classic: > The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of ROBINSON CRUSOE, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Iſland on the Coaſt of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been caſt on Shore by Shipwreck, where-in all the Men periſhed but himſelf. With An Account how he was at laſt as ſtrangely deliver'd by Pirates.
- Freak_NL 7y agoI'm forry about the long-f there, but the title doefn't look right without it.
- WalterBright 7y agoMy f key ftopped working af well.
- jfk13 7y agoI confeſs I was ſorry to ſee you failed to uſe the proper ‘ſ’ while apologiſing, and ſubſtituted the quite different letter ‘f’.