Below are the first lines of some fairly famous novels; extremely long first lines include only the very beginnings. Can you identify the novels and the authors? First one to get the most correct wins the 10 points! Good luck!
1. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
2. "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possesion of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
3. "Call me Ishmael."
4. "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton."
5. "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road..."
6. "3 May--Bistritz Left Munich at 8:35 p.m. on 1st May..."
7. "One evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman..."
8. "Howard Roark laughed."
9. "You like to have some cup of tea?"
10. "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth."
2006-07-04
22:03:31
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