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* ''Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady'' by [[Samuel Richardson]].
* ''Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded'', also by [[Samuel Richardson]].
* Poet [[Sonnets from the Portugese|Elizabeth Barrett Browning]] penned and titled a poem ''[http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/victoria/ref/ps_berg_cd13_200.html Sebastian, or Virtue Rewarded]'' when she was about 9 years old. The contents still apparently haven't been published.
** In fact, [[wikipedia:Virtue Rewarded|subtitling your book "or: Virtue Rewarded"]] was apparently <s>Victorian</s> Stuart- and Hanoverian-era slang for {{smallcaps|Morals Inside®}}. See the Theater section.
*** Subverted by the Marquis de Sade's novels ''Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue'' and ''Juliette, or Vice Amply Rewarded''.
* The [[Banned in China|famously banned]] erotic novel ''[[Fanny Hill]], or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'' by [[John Cleland]].
* ''[[Cecilia]], or Memoirs of an Heiress'' by [[Frances Burney]].
* ''[http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/Cool_Stuff/Short_Stories/I_Cthulhu I, Cthulhu]; or, What's a Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing in a Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47° 9' S, Longitude 126° 43' W)?'', by [[Neil Gaiman]] -- doubles as a [[The Joy of X|snowclone title]] of the form "I, Noun".
* The Thomas Hobbes book ''Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil''.
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Or: Why Suck Is OK, Blow Is Not
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* [[Michael Moorcock]]'s ''[[Doctor Who]]'' novel ''The Coming of the Terraphiles, or Pirates of the Second Aether!''
* ''[[The Diamond Age]], Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer'' by [[Neal Stephenson]]
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* Most any time part of a song title is in parentheses, this means that the part included in the parentheses is an alternate title.
** Fairly often when this happens, a song already has a title, but the artist (or the studio) realizes fans call the song by another name, and hence use the alternate title as recognition of -- or resignation to -- that fact.
* ''Every'' song on [[Radiohead]]'s album ''Hail to the Thief'' (including the album itself, which is actually titled "Hail to the Thief, or, The Gloaming"). For example, singles "There There" and "2+2=5" are really called "There There (The Boney King of Nowhere)" and "2+2=5 (The Lukewarm)". While the secondary titles are rarely ever used, the tracklist on the back cover includes both, and the lyrics in the liner notes ''only'' use the secondary titles.
* The Incredible String Band's 1967 album ''The 5000 Spirits or The Layers of the Onion''.
* Sufjan Stevens sometimes combines this with his infamous love for the [[Long Title]]. Consider this whopper from the ''Illinois'' album: "The Black Hawk War, Or, How To Demolish An Entire Civilization And Still Feel Good About Yourself In The Morning, Or, We Apologize For The Inconvenience But You're Going To Have To Leave Now, Or "I Have Fought The Big Knives And Will Continue To Fight Them Until They Are Off My Land"
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* Love's ''Forever Changes'' album includes a song called "Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale".
* Except for the short introductory track, every track on Lemon Jelly's [[Concept Album]] ''69-95'' is titled with the last two digits of the year in which the track's principal sample was released, followed by a more easily-remembered title, e.g. "''79 aka The Shouty Track", "'95 aka Make Things Right", etc. The year element is usually dropped when the tracks are referred to in any other context.
* The Left Banke's ''Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina''. Apparently either they or their label couldn't decide which single should be the [[Title Track]].
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