1. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”
– A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)
2. “Call me Ishmael.”
– Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
3. “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)
4. “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
– Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
5. “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.”
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
6. “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
– 1984 by George Orwell (1949)
7. “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
– Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)
8. “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”
– Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)
9. “Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.”
– The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925)
10. “Mother died today. Or maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure.”
– The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)
Each of these first lines sets the tone for the rest of the novel, sparking curiosity and drawing readers into the story.
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