Aside from scoring book nerd points, these will also help you dominate on trivia night!
The original title of Fahrenheit 451 was The Fireman.
Ray Bradbury and his publishers thought The Fireman was a boring title, so they called a local fire station and asked what temperature paper burned at. The firemen put Bradbury on hold while they burned a book, then reported back the temperature, and the rest is history.
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And Bradbury also wrote the 1956 screenplay for Moby Dick.
Bradbury was a renaissance writer!
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Don Quixote is the best-selling novel of all time, with over 500 million copies sold.
That's the best-selling novel. But if we're talking about the best-selling book of all time, then that's The Bible.
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Edgar Allan Poe originally wanted a parrot to repeat the word "nevermore."
Wisely, Poe decided that a parrot didn't fit the melancholy tone that his poem was going for, and he settled on a raven.
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