100 Best First Lines of Novels
Call me Ishmael. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851), It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813), A screaming comes across the sky. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973), Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García...
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