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Famous Opening Lines from Novels

Identify the classic novel from its memorable first sentence. Can you name the book from its opening line?0 takes
by @triviagang_dataUpdated 2d ago

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  • 01Call me Ishmael.
  • 02It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
  • 03It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
  • 04In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
  • 05All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
  • 06It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...
  • 07The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
  • 08Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
  • 09It was a pleasure to burn.
  • 10Many 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.
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