The opening sentence of1984is often cited as one of the greatest opening lines in the history of literature—not just the science fiction genre. It’s easy to see why: Orwell’s opening line turns expectations on their heads, catching the reader’s attention from the start. But this scene ...
This article focuses on the contest held by American Book Review on January 2006 on the top 100 Best First Lines from novels. The contest was inspired by a similar contest held by the American Film Institute on motion picture lines. The novels included on the list of novel candidates ...
The titles range from Don Quixote to Middlesex The editors of American Book Review selected what they consider the most memorable first lines of novels. The titles on the list span centuries and genres and include classics and contemporary novels that ar
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…I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he...
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100 Best First Lines from Novels Read by Phoebe 1. Call me Ishmael. —Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) 2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813) ...
This book boasts one of the most famous opening lines in literature: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...” One of Dickens’ most famous works,A Tale of Two Citiesis a vivid tale of the French Revolution.
were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much depended upon what they were then doing;—that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and ...