10 Classic Novel Titles Rewritten as Clickbait
Getting reader’s attention is no easy task
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3 min readOct 1, 2019
Now that anyone can publish online, the marketplace is quite crowded. If the writers of our much beloved classics were alive today they couldn’t rely on their old title-generating techniques. They‘d have to get reader’s attention with a juicy headline better suited for the internet.
Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery becomes:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment is renamed:
Mary Shelly’s masterpiece Frankenstein shall be known as:
Herman Melville’s Moby Dick gets this updated title: