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May 04, 2007
Famous First Lines of Novels
Below is a list 1st lines from 10 novels. Who is the author and what is the name of the novel?
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.
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.
3. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
4. Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.
5. 124 was spiteful.
6. I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man.
7. All this happened, more or less.
8. Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
9. It was a pleasure to burn.
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.
Posted by d-nadler at May 4, 2007 03:39 PM