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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.
The book is marketed towards children at a reading level of grades 5–8. [2] The book chronicles the evolution of the title character as she is pushed outside her naive existence and learns about life aboard a ship crossing from England to America in 1832.
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 ...
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 ...
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]
The format and location of the page numbers is a matter of style for the publisher. If the page numbers appear after the heading text, they might be preceded by characters called leaders, usually dots or periods, that run from the chapter or section titles on the opposite side of the page, or the page numbers might remain closer to the titles ...
The foreword to Men I Have Painted, by John McLure Hamilton; 1921 Foreword, to a 1900 book in German. A foreword is a (usually short) piece of writing, sometimes placed at the beginning of a book or other piece of literature. Typically written by someone other than the primary author of the work, it often tells of some interaction between the ...
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 ]