J7. The title: its meaning and echoes in the text. Both

Theme and motif. One line per book. Open a book for the full answer, charts and cited lines.

Book	Genre	Result
Treasure Island	Thriller and adventure	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Thirty-Nine Steps	Thriller and adventure	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Prisoner of Zenda	Thriller and adventure	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Around the World in Eighty Days	Thriller and adventure	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
King Solomon's Mines	Thriller and adventure	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Hound of the Baskervilles	Crime and mystery	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
A Study in Scarlet	Crime and mystery	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	Crime and mystery	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Moonstone	Crime and mystery	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Woman in White	Crime and mystery	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Pride and Prejudice	Romance	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Persuasion	Romance	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Emma	Romance	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Jane Eyre	Romance	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Dracula	Gothic and horror	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Frankenstein	Gothic and horror	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Gothic and horror	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Gothic and horror	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Wuthering Heights	Gothic and horror	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Turn of the Screw	Gothic and horror	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Time Machine	Science fiction	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The War of the Worlds	Science fiction	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Invisible Man	Science fiction	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Fantasy and children's	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	Fantasy and children's	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Secret Garden	Fantasy and children's	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Wind in the Willows	Fantasy and children's	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Great Expectations	Literary	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
A Christmas Carol	Literary	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Great Gatsby	Literary	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Heart of Darkness	Literary	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Kidnapped	Thriller and adventure	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Count of Monte Cristo	Thriller and adventure	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Three Musketeers	Thriller and adventure	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Riddle of the Sands	Thriller and adventure	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Scarlet Pimpernel	Thriller and adventure	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Lost World	Thriller and adventure	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Captain Blood	Thriller and adventure	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Lady Audley's Secret	Crime and mystery	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue	Crime and mystery	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Innocence of Father Brown	Crime and mystery	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Big Bow Mystery	Crime and mystery	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Leavenworth Case	Crime and mystery	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Red Thumb Mark	Crime and mystery	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Amateur Cracksman	Crime and mystery	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Secret Agent	Crime and mystery	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Sense and Sensibility	Romance	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
North and South	Romance	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Far from the Madding Crowd	Romance	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Enchanted April	Romance	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Sheik	Romance	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Daddy Long Legs	Romance	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Carmilla	Gothic and horror	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Castle of Otranto	Gothic and horror	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Phantom of the Opera	Gothic and horror	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Great God Pan	Gothic and horror	The title refers to the god Pan revealed in chapter 1 and invoked throughout as symbol of primordial evil. Chapter 2 mentions Pan explicitly. Chapter 8 reveals Helen as the monstrous result of attempting to see Pan. …
The Yellow Wallpaper	Gothic and horror	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Call of Cthulhu	Gothic and horror	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Island of Doctor Moreau	Science fiction	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth	Science fiction	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
A Princess of Mars	Science fiction	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Herland	Science fiction	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Flatland	Science fiction	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Erewhon	Science fiction	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Last Man	Science fiction	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Through the Looking Glass	Fantasy and children's	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
A Little Princess	Fantasy and children's	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Jungle Book	Fantasy and children's	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Five Children and It	Fantasy and children's	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Railway Children	Fantasy and children's	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Princess and the Goblin	Fantasy and children's	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Peter and Wendy	Fantasy and children's	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Worm Ouroboros	Fantasy and children's	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Anne of Green Gables	Fantasy and children's	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Black Beauty	Fantasy and children's	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Middlemarch	Literary	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles	Literary	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Mrs Dalloway	Literary	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
To the Lighthouse	Literary	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Anna Karenina	Literary	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Crime and Punishment	Literary	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Madame Bovary	Literary	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Age of Innocence	Literary	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Silas Marner	Literary	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Literary	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Hamlet	Plays	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Macbeth	Plays	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Romeo and Juliet	Plays	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Othello	Plays	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
A Midsummer Night's Dream	Plays	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Twelfth Night	Plays	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Doctor Faustus	Plays	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The Importance of Being Earnest	Plays	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
A Doll's House	Plays	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Hedda Gabler	Plays	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
Pygmalion	Plays	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.
The School for Scandal	Plays	How often the key words of the title appear in the text.

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