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Call Me Stately Plump Mrs. Dalloway: 100 Best Opening Lines From Novels Per "American Book Review" - Page 2

Would you have kept reading "Moby Dick" had it begun with "My name is Ishmael," or "Pride and Prejudice" if it kicked off with "Many people think wealthy young men should find a wife?" Probably, since they were assigned to you for a class, but still, a great opening sentence is usually the hallmark of a great novel. For example, Jacqueline Susann's "Valley of the Dolls" begins with "The temperature hit ninety degrees the day she arrived." As opposed to ninety what?
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Chromos
Chromos
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The Debut
The Debut
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Pale Fire
Pale Fire
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Ethan Frome
Ethan Frome
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Alphabetical Africa
Alphabetical Africa
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea
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The Crow Road
The Crow Road
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Middlesex
Middlesex
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Elmer Gantry
Elmer Gantry
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Tracks
Tracks
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Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
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The End of the Affair
The End of the Affair
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At Swim-Two-Birds
At Swim-Two-Birds
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Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
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Wittgenstein's Mistress
Wittgenstein's Mistress
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Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
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Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
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Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things
Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things
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The Razor's Edge
The Razor's Edge
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Back When We Were Grownups
Back When We Were Grownups
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The Napoleon of Notting Hill
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
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The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
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The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
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The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
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The Broom of the System
The Broom of the System
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Herzog
Herzog
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The Violent Bear It Away
The Violent Bear It Away
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The Tin Drum
The Tin Drum
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The Dick Gibson Show
The Dick Gibson Show
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The Origin of the Brunists
The Origin of the Brunists
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The Wings of the Dove
The Wings of the Dove
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A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms
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The Towers of Trebizond
The Towers of Trebizond
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Lord Jim
Lord Jim
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The Go-Between
The Go-Between
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Riddley Walker
Riddley Walker
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A Frolic of His Own
A Frolic of His Own
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