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The Best Opening Lines in Literature - Page 4

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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Orlando
Orlando
122
The Outsiders
The Outsiders
123
Pale Fire
Pale Fire
124
Paradise
Paradise
125
Paul Clifford
Paul Clifford
126
The Pearl
The Pearl
127
Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie
Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie
128
The Plague
The Plague
129
Play It as It Lays (Joan Didion)
Play It as It Lays (Joan Didion)
130
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
131
The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady
132
Praisesong for the Widow (Paule Marshall)
Praisesong for the Widow (Paule Marshall)
133
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
134
The Princess Bride
The Princess Bride
135
The Razor's Edge
The Razor's Edge
136
Rebecca
Rebecca
137
The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage
138
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Douglas Adams)
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Douglas Adams)
139
Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road
140
Riddley Walker
Riddley Walker
141
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
142
The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
143
Scaramouche
Scaramouche
144
Second Skin
Second Skin
145
The Secret History
The Secret History
146
Sellevision (Augusten Burroughs)
Sellevision (Augusten Burroughs)
147
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
148
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Something Wicked This Way Comes
149
The Sot-Weed Factor
The Sot-Weed Factor
150
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury
151
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
152
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
153
Swann's Way
Swann's Way
154
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
155
The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe)
156
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God
157
The Tiger's Wife
The Tiger's Wife
158
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
159
The Tin Drum
The Tin Drum
160
The Towers of Trebizond
The Towers of Trebizond
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