[wideawake]

Name a great work of literature that was written specifically to make the author a load of cash.

Great books are written by people who are trying to express a vision and who generally have to fight to have them published by anybody.

Literary genius and marketing genius are two different beasts.

[Billthedrill]

Name a great work of literature that was written specifically to make the author a load of cash.

All of Shakespeare's plays. Everything Samuel Johnson wrote, including his aphorism "no one but a blockhead writes save for money." The issue is an old one.

[Protagoras]

who generally have to fight to have them published by anybody.

If they don't want to sell them, why are they fighting to have them published?

I have to go now, but if you can't think of many many great books that were written for money by tomorrow, look me up and I list a ton of them for you. I don't even know where to start there are so many.

Your "ton of cash" thing won't work either, they are written for profit.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Hamlet comes to mind.

As does Ivanhoe.