Which two big novels of the past two years borrowed their titles from “Macbeth”?
Nailing the answer — “Birnam Wood” and “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” — might make you feel a little smug.
), is enough to spur you to buy a book, the way a search-optimized headline compels you to click a link.
The name of a book becomes more memorable when it echoes something you might have heard — or think you should have heard — before.
Before the turn of the 20th century titles were more descriptive than allusive.
Persons:
don’t, “, Pamela, ” “ Robinson, ”, Marcel Proust, Shakespeare
Locations:
Wuthering, Bethlehem