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May 09, 2007
Answers to the Famous First Lines
1. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities - 1859
Read the book: PR4571 .B66
2. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
J. D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye - 1951
Read the book: PS3537.A426 C351964
3. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
James Joyce - Ulysses - 1922
Read the book: PR6019.O9 U41946
4. Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury - 1929
Read the book: PS3511.A86 S67
5. 124 was spiteful.
Toni Morrison - Beloved - 1987
Read the book: PS3563.O8749 B4 2004
6. I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (trans. Michael R. Katz) - Notes from Underground - 1864
7. All this happened, more or less.
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five - 1969
8. Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
Zora Neale Hurston -Their Eyes Were Watching God - 1937
Read the book: PS3515.U789 T6391991
9. It was a pleasure to burn.
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 - 1953
10. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.
Sinclair Lewis - Babbitt - 1922
Read the book: PS3523.E94 B3
Posted by d-nadler at May 9, 2007 01:19 PM