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Give some books with interesting/weird/long titles please.

>> No.21243195
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>>21242546
The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion

>> No.21243392

>>21242546
Hedyphagetica: A Romantic Argument After certain Old Models, & Containing an Assortment of Heroes, Scenes of Anthropophagy & of Pathos, an Apology for Epicurism, & Many Objections raised against It, Together with Reflexions upon the Bodies politic & Individual, their Affections, Nourishments, &c.

>> No.21243704

>>21242546
No

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>>21242546
The book of laughter and forgetting, Kundera titles are fucking kino. Also pic rel

>> No.21243842

>>21242546

>Best wacky title making use of archaic vocabulary:
The Sot-Weed Factor


>Best weird-but-intriguing title for a disappointing book:
The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike


>Best absurdly long title which everyone just truncates to the first word:
Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: How he was Kidnapped and Cast away; his Sufferings in a Desert Isle; His Journey in the Wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called: Written by Himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson

>> No.21244266

>>21242546
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstruous Regiment of Women

>> No.21244283
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>>21242546
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

>> No.21244866

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM

>> No.21245809

>>21242546
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

>> No.21245835

>>21242546
That image looks really cool. I want a poster of it.

>> No.21246297

>>21245835
book is pretty good too

>> No.21247881

>>21243195
I love Henry Darger. One of the most fascinating people I've heard of.

>> No.21248023

>>21244283
Any idea what kind of rodent that is?

>> No.21248109

>>21242546
Apology by Plato

>> No.21248408

Theozoology, or the Science of the Sodomite Apelings:
An Introduction to the most ancient and most modern philosophy and a justification of the monarchy and the nobility. With 45 Illustrations.

>> No.21248576

>>21248023
ratto

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>> No.21250375

>>21242546
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

>> No.21250604

>>21244283
>>21250375

>> No.21250613

I've always liked Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials.

>> No.21250869

>>21248023
it's a sugar glider - not a rodent

>> No.21251909

>>21250869
>sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps) is a small, omnivorous, arboreal, and nocturnal gliding possum belonging to the marsupial infraclass

but why is it so based

>> No.21252435

>>21244283
this is what happens when you have a tiny snout

>> No.21253096

>>21242546
Philosophy has a lot of books with long titles
>A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects
>Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science
>Meditations on First Philosophy, in which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated

>> No.21253334

>>21253096
Some more philosophy works with long titles:
>Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
>The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence of God
>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

>> No.21255126

>>21253096
meditations on meditations, the philosophy of philosophy

>> No.21256251

>>21255126
logic of logic

>> No.21256974

>>21243195
Fpbp

>> No.21257002

>The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself: With a detail of curious traditionary facts and other evidence by the editor
Ignore all of the other shit in this thread. Read this first and become enlightened.