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Not to be confused with [[Long Titles vs. Short Titles]] and [[Short Titles]].
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=== An incomplete but ever-expanding listing of instances where this title trope has been applied in various media, as relentlessly compiled by [[The Contributors]] to [[TV Tropes
== Comic Books: Or, Short stories printed on paper told through a mixture of sequential images and bubbles containing text, indicating what the characters are saying, thinking, and occasionally doing. ==
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* Thomas Percival's ''A Father's Instructions; Consisting of Moral Tales, Fables, and Reflections; Designed to Promote The Love of Virtue, a Taste for Knowledge, And an Early Acquaintance with the Works of Nature.''
* D. G. Compton wrote a science fiction novel succinctly titled ''Chronocules'' (sic). However, his British publisher didn't think the title was memorable enough and renamed it ''Hot Wireless Sets, Aspirin Tablets, the Sandpaper Sides of Used Matchboxes, and Something that Might have Been Castor Oil''.
* Though not nearly as extreme as most of these examples, John O'Farrell's ''An Utterly Impartial History of Britain: or 2000 years of [[
* [[Adam Smith Hates Your Guts|Adam Smith's]] "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations"
* ''Dealing, or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues'' by [[Michael Crichton]] and Douglas Crichton.
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* Wormphlegm's "In an Excruciating Way Infested with Vermin and Violated by Executioners Who Practise Incendiarism and Desanctifying the Pious"
* [[Mayday Parade]] has several relatively long titles, but the longest by far is "You Be The Anchor That Keeps My Feet On The Ground, I'll Be The Wings That Keep Your Heart In The Clouds".
* The Spoon [[B
* "A Bunch of Us Were Sitting Around a Candle in San Francisco Getting Stoned and I Hope You're There Next Time" by 1960s singer-songwriter Gordon Alexander.
* "Riding a Black Unicorn Down The Side of an Erupting Volcano While Drinking From a Chalice Filled with the Laughter of Small Children" by Voltaire. Inspired by a comment from a fan about what Voltaire's music was like.
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