View Single Post
Old 06-16-2015, 11:59 AM   #123
ApK
Award-Winning Participant
ApK ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ApK ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ApK ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ApK ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ApK ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ApK ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ApK ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ApK ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ApK ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ApK ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.ApK ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 7,389
Karma: 68329346
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: NJ, USA
Device: Kindle
Quote:
Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
There was a 1914 book of that name, but looking at google n-grams it does seem that Philosopher's Stone was used widely even in the US. A very poor decision to change it by the US publisher.
We had this discussion last year, too:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=237444

And here I'll only point out that the wild success of the book in the US suggests it was very good decision by the US publisher, who perhaps had some skill in knowing what sort of words and meter work best in American book titles.
ApK is offline   Reply With Quote