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Books Known By Shorter Names

Many famous books are known by abbreviated or short names. See if you can identify the omitted short name by the remainder of the title.
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Science
Isaac Newton
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Galileo Galilei
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican
Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
 
 
Philosophy and Economics
Adam Smith
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
David Hume
A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects
Thomas Malthus
An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society
 
 
Fiction (Classic and Modern)
Willem Defoe
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
Charles Dickens
The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery
Jonathan Swift
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver
Christopher Marlowe
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
Peter George
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Philip K Dick
Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
 
 
Political and Religious
Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiastical and Civil
John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come
Thomas Paine
Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America
Joseph Smith, Translator
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and For Making Them Beneficial to the Public
John Locke
Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, are Detected and Overthrown
John Foxe
The Book of the Martyrs, Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Days
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