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The Best Opening Lines in Literature - Page 3

Collected by Buzzfeed (and supplemented by additional online lists), these are books with some of the greatest, most enticing, surprising, poetic, starkly insidious, darkly comic, or deliciously clever opening lines of all time.
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
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Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things
Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things
83
Intruder in the Dust
Intruder in the Dust
84
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
85
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
86
JR
JR
87
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
88
Kindred (Octavia Butler)
Kindred (Octavia Butler)
89
The Last Good Kiss
The Last Good Kiss
90
Less Than Zero
Less Than Zero
91
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
92
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
93
Lord Jim
Lord Jim
94
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera
95
Love, Anger, Madness (Marie Vieux-Chauvet)
Love, Anger, Madness (Marie Vieux-Chauvet)
96
The Lover
The Lover
97
The Luck of the Bodkins (P. G. Wodehouse)
The Luck of the Bodkins (P. G. Wodehouse)
98
The Making of Americans (Gertrude Stein)
The Making of Americans (Gertrude Stein)
99
The Marriage Plot
The Marriage Plot
100
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
101
Middle Passage
Middle Passage
102
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
103
Middlesex
Middlesex
104
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
105
Miss Lonelyhearts
Miss Lonelyhearts
106
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
107
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway
108
Murphy (Samuel Beckett)
Murphy (Samuel Beckett)
109
My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante)
My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante)
110
The Name of the Wind (Patrick Rothfuss)
The Name of the Wind (Patrick Rothfuss)
111
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
112
Neuromancer
Neuromancer
113
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
114
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four
115
Notes From the Underground
Notes From the Underground
116
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
117
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
118
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
119
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
120
The Origin of the Brunists
The Origin of the Brunists
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