“He — for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it — was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.”

Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers (1844)

H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896)

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895)

“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)

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)

George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871—72)

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847)

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)

“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.”

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)

Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side (1956)

Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night (1968)

Bernard Malamud, The Tenants (1971)

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962)

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932)

H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

“Mother died today.”

Albert Camus, The Stranger (1942)

Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (1938)

Albert Camus, The Stranger (1942)

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)

Jean Genet, Funeral Rites (1947)

“All this happened, more or less.”

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

Graham Greene, The Third Man (1949)

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

“The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.”

Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (1908)

George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945)

Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (1908)

A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)

Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book (1894—95)

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”

Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)

Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World (1981)

Carlos Fuentes, The Obscene Bird of Night (1970)

Isabel Allende, The House of Spirits (1982)

Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)

“What’s it going to be then, eh?”

Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962)

J.P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man (1955)

Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962)

Memorable Beginnings Vol. 2: Match the Opening Line to the Work Quiz Quiz

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“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.”

Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again (1940)

Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn (1939)

Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957)

J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye (1951)

1.

“He — for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it — was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.”

2.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

4.

“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.”

5.

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

6.

“Mother died today.”

7.

“All this happened, more or less.”

8.

“The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.”

9.

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”

10.

“What’s it going to be then, eh?”

Time

1. “He — for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it — was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.”

2. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

4. “It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.”

5. “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

6. “Mother died today.”

7. “All this happened, more or less.”

8. “The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.”

9. “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”

10. “What’s it going to be then, eh?”

Time

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1.

“He — for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it — was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.”

2.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

4.

“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.”

5.

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

6.

“Mother died today.”

7.

“All this happened, more or less.”

8.

“The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.”

9.

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”

10.

“What’s it going to be then, eh?”