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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

 

 

 

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