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10 Classic Novel Titles Rewritten as Clickbait

Getting reader’s attention is no easy task

3 min readOct 1, 2019

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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:

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment is renamed:

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Mary Shelly’s masterpiece Frankenstein shall be known as:

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Herman Melville’s Moby Dick gets this updated title:

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