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OPENING LINES
Which novels have these opening lines?
| 1. | You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. |
| 2. | My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. |
| 3. | Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. |
| 4. | We should start back,” Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them |
| 5. | Mr Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he stayed up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. |
| 6. | My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. |
| 7. | Marley was dead, to begin with. |
| 8. | Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and razor lay crossed. |
| 9. | The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. |
| 10. | 1801 – I have just returned from a visit to my landlord – the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. |
quiz kindly submitted by Tessa on 13th May 2016