First Lines

Here's something fun to do on this gloomy, rainy, Tuesday. Check out some first lines of well-known novels down below. Can you guess where they came from?

It you'd like, identify one or two in the comment section. Good luck!

"It was a pleasure to burn."

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

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."

"Call me Ishmael."

"All happy families are alike; each 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."

"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."

"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day."

"Marley was dead: to begin with."

"Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy."

"On Friday, 12th June, I woke up at six o'clock and no wonder; it was my birthday."

"To the red country and part of the grey country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth."

"Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York."

"'Tom! No answer. Tom! No answer. What's gone with that boy, I wonder?'"

Laura
On behalf of the ACL