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Call Me Stately Plump Mrs. Dalloway: 100 Best Opening Lines From Novels Per "American Book Review" - Page 3

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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Crash (J.G. Ballard)
Crash
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I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith)
I Capture the Castle
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Geek Love (Katherine Dunn)
Geek Love
Katherine Dunn
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The Sot-Weed Factor
The Sot-Weed Factor
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The Last Good Kiss
The Last Good Kiss
86
Intruder in the Dust
Intruder in the Dust
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I Claudius
I Claudius
88
Middle Passage
Middle Passage
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The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
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Babbitt (Sinclair Lewis)
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Second Skin
Second Skin
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Scaramouche
Scaramouche
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Blown Away
Blown Away
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
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Double or Nothing
Double or Nothing
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Cat's Eye (Margaret Atwood)
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Orlando (Virginia Woolf)
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The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
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