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At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien has only one chapter: the first page is titled Chapter 1, but there are no further chapter divisions. God, A Users' Guide by Seán Moncrieff is chaptered backwards (i.e., the first chapter is chapter 20 and the last is chapter 1). The novel The Running Man by Stephen King also uses a similar chapter numbering ...
Facsimile of the original title page for William Congreve's The Way of the World published in 1700, on which the epigraph from Horace's Satires can be seen in the bottom quarter. In literature , an epigraph is a phrase, quotation , or poem that is set at the beginning of a document, monograph or section or chapter thereof. [ 1 ]
Title page of the 1925 first edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The title page of a book, thesis or other written work is the page at or near the front which displays its title, subtitle, author, publisher, and edition, often artistically decorated.
Big Book with Many Chapters and Two Co-authors. Book Publishers. pp. 100– 110. Three authors, title with a differently-named title link, edition {{cite book | last1 = Bloggs | first1 = Joe | author-link1 = Joe Bloggs | last2 = Smith | first2 = John | last3 = Smythe | first3 = Jim | title = 1000 Acres | title-link = A Thousand Acres | edition ...
The title traditionally appears on the page as a single line in capital letters, but modern half title pages may be scaled-down versions of the typography from the full title page. The half title page faces a blank verso or an endpaper. [5] Frontispiece: Author or publisher: A decorative illustration on the verso facing the title page.
Half-title page of Picturesque New Guinea (1887), with ornamentation above and below the title. The half-title or bastard title is a page carrying nothing but the title of a book—as opposed to the title page, which also lists subtitle, author, publisher and edition. The half-title is usually counted as the first page (p. i) in a printed book. [1]
Most publishers permit self-archiving of the postprint version of the author's own chapter (if contributed to only one chapter) or 10% of the total book (if contributed to multiple chapters). [3] The notable exception is Elsevier, which is the largest publisher to not permit chapter archiving under any circumstances.
[18] [19] A member of the Newbery committee that year felt the book deserved to win the Newbery Medal and described the book as being about "a spunky young lady [who] goes from polite idealist impressed by good manners and gallantry to a realistic young woman who comes to terms with the complexity of the 19th-century society in which she lives ...