Can you figure out the real titles of these five reworded classics?
- The Geezer and the Caribbean
- An Elm Develops from a Sapling Where the Dodgers Once Played
- While I Was in Bed Croaking
- The Muscadines Belonging to Anger
- Tremendous Anticipations
I'll put the answers in the comments for you. But here's the REAL question: Have you read any of these five classics? Now take a look at the illustration at the top that shows eleven classics above — have you read any of those? Clicking on the picture should enlarge it, but here's the list of books for you:
- The Red Badge of Courage ~ by Stephen Crane, 1895
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ~ by James Joyce, 1916
- Aesop's Fables ~ by Aesop (of course), who is believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE
- Oedipus the King (also known as Oedipus Rex) ~ by Sophocles, circa 429 BCE
- The Aeneid ~ by Virgil, between 29 and 19 BCE
- Little Women ~ by Louisa May Alcott, published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869
- Ivanhoe ~ by Sir Walter Scott, published in three volumes in 1819
- The Republic ~ by Plato, circa 375 BC
- Wuthering Heights ~ by Emily Brontë, 1847
- Two Plays: The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters ~ by Anton Chekhov, 1904 for the first and 1901 for the other
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ~ by Mark Twain, published in the UK in December 1884 and in the USA in February 1885
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Here are the actual titles:
1. The Old Man and the Sea ~ by Ernest Hemingway, 1952
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ~ by Betty Smith, 1943
3. As I Lay Dying ~ by William Faulkner, 1930
4. Grapes of Wrath ~ by John Steinbeck, 1939
5. Great Expectations ~ by Charles Dickens, 1861
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