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 [blip], but..."
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