THE FIRST LINE is an invitation to read on
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. Gabriel García Márquez
Moby-Dick
Call me Ishmael.
Herman Melville
1984
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
George Orwell
The Adventures of Huckberry Finn
You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.
Mark Twain
David Copperfield
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
Charles Dickens
City of Glass
It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not. - Paul Auster
Don Quixote
Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.
Miguel de Cervantes
Slaughterhouse-Five
All this happened, more or less.
Kurt Vonnegut
The Razor's Edge
I have never begun a novel with more misgiving.
W. Somerset Maugham
The Great Gatsby
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Go-Between
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley