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To make the content of the book easy to ascertain, there came the custom of printing on the top page a title, a few words in larger letters than the body, and thus readable from a greater distance. As the book evolved, most books became the product of an author. Early books, like those of the Old Testament, did not have authors.
The first printed books, or incunabula, did not have title pages: the text simply begins on the first page, and the book is often identified by the initial words—the incipit—of the text proper. Other older books may have bibliographic information on the colophon at the end of the book.
In books and other works, the subtitle is an explanatory title added by the author to the title proper of a work. [1] Another kind of subtitle, often used in the past, is the alternative title , also called alternate title , traditionally denoted and added to the title with the alternative conjunction "or", hence its appellation.
In the first printed issue of the novel, the word 'Decides' was misprinted as 'Decided', and the word 'saw' is mistyped as 'was' on page 57.
To my students: Some of you read "Fahrenheit 451." Some of you read "On the Beach." Some of you read "Dune." Some of you read "The Martian Chronicles."
The general noun phrase "title character" can be replaced with a descriptive noun or phrase which is then further described using the adjective "titular". For example, the title character of Dracula can be referred to as the book's "titular vampire", [23] the title character of Hamlet is the "titular prince of Denmark", [24] and the title character of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is the "titular ...
Titres are sometimes expressed by the denominator only, for example 1:256 is written 256. [3] The term also has two other, conflicting meanings. In titration, the titer is the ratio of actual to nominal concentration of a titrant, e.g. a titer of 0.5 would require 1/0.5 = 2 times more titrant than nominal. This is to compensate for possible ...
Book Qatar Arabic Translation award. Total award value is $2 million. [33] 100,000 US$100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature: Book Nigeria English [34] [35] 100,000 US$100,000 Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing: Author United States English [36] 100,000 US$100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Author United States ...