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Fictional First Lines #1006002
03/10/15 09:42 PM
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Can you identify the following works of fiction by their opening lines?

-1. “All children, except one, grow up.”

-2. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

-3. “’Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,’ grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.”

-4. “The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail.”

-5. “It was a pleasure to burn.”

-6. “When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.”

-7. “Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.”

-8. “A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded wi

-9. “Not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine.”

-10. “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of cr*p, but..."




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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1006004
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10. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger wave

Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1006006
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7. Christmas Carol

one of my favorites laugh

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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1006007
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6. The Secret Garden - I'm so happy I could answer this one. I finally read this for the first time within the last year. I have to say, it is really original and good...unlike anything else I have read.


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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1006011
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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1006012
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1. Peter Pan grin

Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1006013
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4. Jaws - Peter Benchley. <`}}}}}}><

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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1006014
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Six for six! wave

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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1006018
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2 - pride and prejudice ,austen wave

Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1006023
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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1006029
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9 is it Cujo? think










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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1006130
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Both correct! wave


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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1006202
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5.Fahrenheit 451 Stories/Ray Bradbury smile wave


I change all my passwords to "incorrect". So whenever I forget, it says, "your password is incorrect".

Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1006284
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Good one, Haroula! wave


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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1006286
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8. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne wave

Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #1006292
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Well finished, Marian! wave


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