9 Famous Opening Lines of Novels – and Why We Love Them
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“In A Hole in The Ground There Lived A Hobbit.”“Last Night I Dreamt I Went to Manderley again.”“It Was A Bright Cold Day in April, and The Clocks Were Striking thirteen.”“All Happy Families Are alike; Each Unhappy Family Is Unhappy in Its Own way.”“It Was The Best of Times, It Was The Worst of Times“The Past Is A Foreign Country: They Do Things Differently there.” – The Hobbit, TolkienThis matter-of-fact opening line marks the beginning not just of The Hobbit, but of a vast swathe of literature set in a mythological fantasy world of Tolkien’s own creation: Middle Earth. Its simplicity is what makes it work so well as an opening line; its style is akin to the opening of a children’s fa…
– The Hobbit, TolkienThis matter-of-fact opening line marks the beginning not just of The Hobbit, but of a vast swathe of literature set in a mythological fantasy world of Tolkien’s own creation: Middle Earth. Its simplicity is what makes it work so well as an opening line; its style is akin to the opening of a children’s fa…
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