Opening lines: great novels

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"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

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

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"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."

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"Call me Ishmael."

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"riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs."

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"Mother died today."

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

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"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

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"All this happened, more or less."

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"Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space."

Test your knowledge of English literature by matching these opening lines to their source and author.

Opening lines: great novels

Opening lines: great novels

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

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

"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."

"Call me Ishmael."

"riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs."

"Mother died today."

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

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

"All this happened, more or less."

"Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space."