Isn't Life Terrible? » Jules Verne Popular Culture, Unpopular Culture, and Tom Snyder Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:13:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Best Book Title Ever ?p=66 ?p=66#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:29:00 +0000 Don ?p=66 I’ve just scoured the internet (as well as the biography I have at hand) for confirmation, but could not find anything which corroborates the story I believe to be true about the unusual title of the book seen above, “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea or David Copperfield,” a 1928 collection of Robert Benchley pieces.

The ]]> I’ve just scoured the internet (as well as the biography I have at hand) for confirmation, but could not find anything which corroborates the story I believe to be true about the unusual title of the book seen above, “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea or David Copperfield,” a 1928 collection of Robert Benchley pieces.

The story is this: Somebody mentioned to Benchley that book titles could not be copyrighted.

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