100 Best First Lines from Novels
American Book Review posted what it considers to be the 100 best first lines from novels – see if you agree:
1. Call me Ishmael. —Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)
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 Austen, Pride and [...]
