"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

"All this happened, more or less."

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughter-house Five

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

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..."

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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First Lines of Classic Novels

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Asks students to identify the openings of commonly-read novels.

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"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
Robert Frost's "Death of the Hired Man"
J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
2
"Last night I dreamt of Manderley again."
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
3
"Call Me Ishmael"
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
4
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."
James Joyce's Ulysses
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Toni Morrison's Beloved
5
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"
Emma by Jane Austen
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
6
"124 was spiteful."
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned
Toni Morrison's Beloved
7
"All this happened, more or less."
Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughter-house Five
Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis
8
"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day."
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
9
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man . . . must be in want of a wife."
Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
George Eliot's Middlemarch
Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
10
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..."
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Middlemarch by George Eliot
11
"It was a pleasure to burn."
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughter-house Five
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis

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