taken titles
A rose by any other name, quoth the Bard, would smell as sweet...
But would it? Samuel Butler thought “The Ancient Mariner” would bomb as “The Old Sailor.” And The Great Gatsby just wouldn’t be the same with its original title, Trimalchio in West Egg.

In search of the perfect title, many authors turn to other sources. Faithful reader and ace last-worder Roy Meador ’51 sends this challenge to all Trojan title-finders: Can you pinpoint the origins of the following titles?
We are looking for the source of the title (both author and work) along with enough of the pertinent quotation to set it in context. For example, if we had listed the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the correct answer would be, “Robert Burns, ‘To a Mouse’: ‘The best-laid schemes o’ mice and men / Gang aft agley...’ ”
Get it? Then get to it.

1. The Moon is Down
by John Steinbeck

2. A Handful of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh

3. After Many a Summer
Dies the Swan
by Aldous Huxley

4. O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather

5. From Here to Eternity
by James Jones

6. Home From the Hill
by William Humphrey

7. Where Angels Fear to Tread
by E.M. Forster		 8. Summer’s Lease
by John Mortimer

9. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
(he liked those quotes...)

10. For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway

11. The Golden Apples of the Sun
by Ray Bradbury

12. Sunset and Evening Star
by Sean O’Casey

13. World Enough and Time
by Robert Penn Warren

14. Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray

 
Contest Rules
1. We are looking for both the name of the crooner and the title of the song described in each of the 10 clues.

2. Send us your answers by mail, fax or e-mail (see right) so that we receive them by March 12. Be sure to include your name and mailing address on your entry.

3. We will award up to five $30 gift certificates from Borders Books and Music to those crooner-cognizant readers who send us the correct answers to all 10 questions. If more than five crooner-cognizant readers send in the correct answers before the deadline, we will draw the winners by lot.

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