Quick! Grab a book...ok?

Question

Grab the book nearest to you and post the title, author, and first sentence.

First answer containing the 3 above mentioned components gets 10 points.

"The Republic

Plato

"I went down yesterday to the pireaus with Glaucon, son of Ariston
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NICE!

I'll give you the 10 tomorrow morning. Won't let me do it for 4 hours (is it obvious I am new?).

Keep answering. It's an interesting experiment! I like seeing what's out there.

My answer:

TITLE: Dhammapada: The sayings of the Buddha
AUTHOR/EDITOR: Thomas Byrom
FIRST SENTENCE: "Here are the sayings of the Buddha, the Enlightened One."

Answer 1

The Republic

Plato

"I went down yesterday to the pireaus with Glaucon, son of Ariston"

Answer 2

The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien

First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey.

Answer 3

Complete works of William Shakespeare
The First Part of King Henry the Sixth...Daramatis Personae

Answer 4

The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides

"On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide - it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese - the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope."

Answer 5

Field guide to the birds of North America by National Geographic Society.

More than 800 species of birds breed in North America, or visit the continent regularly, or drop in occasionally.

Answer 6

In an usually-quoted passage of an prolonged letter describing his artwork that my father wrote in 1951, 3 years until eventually now the ebook of The Fellowship of the hoop, he instructed of his early ambition: 'as quickly as upon a time (my crest has long for the reason that fallen) I had a techniques to make a physique of extra or much less related legend, beginning from the huge and cosmogonic, to the point of romantic fairy-tale - the bigger based on the lesser in touch of the earth, the lesser drawing splendour from the great backcloths... i'd draw various the large thoughts in fullness, and go away many purely located in the scheme, and sketched.' you will extra effective provide me superb answer for typing that monstrosity out.

Answer 7

A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens. "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, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."

Answer 8

The Rose and the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad.

Edited by Sean Wilentz and Greil Marcus

"What does the American ballad say about America?"

Answer 9

Finite And Infinite Games

James P. Carse

There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other, infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.

Answer 10

Nachts schlafen die Ratten doch

Wolfgang Borchert

Das hohle Fenster in der vereinsamten Mauer gaehnte blaurot voll frueher Abendsonne.

He is one of my favorite authors. He writes stories about World War II. Oh, this is in German.