> And what about "The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders Who Was Born In Newgate, And During a Life of Continu'd Variety For Threescore Years, Besides Her Childhood, Was Twelve Year a Whore, Five Times a Wife [Whereof Once To Her Own Brother], Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon In Virginia, At Last Grew Rich, Liv'd Honest, and Died a Penitent," by Daniel Defoe, as ultra-condensed by Samuel Stoddard and David J. Parker?

The full title to Dafoe's "Robinson Crusoe" is actually about as long as that. I guess there are certain privileges that come with inventing something like the novel.