Wednesday, June 20, 2007

100 Best First Lines of Novels

100 Best First Lines of Novels: As chosen by the editors of American Book Review

1.Call me Ishmael.Herman MelvilleMoby-Dick1851
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 AustenPride and Prejudice1813
3.A screaming comes across the sky.Thomas PynchonGravity's Rainbow1973
4.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.Gabriel García Márquez (trans. Gregory Rabassa)One Hundred Years of Solitude1967
5.Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.Vladimir NabokovLolita1955
6.Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Leo Tolstoy (trans. Constance Garnett)Anna Karenina1877
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