Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830)Ģ3. It was a dark and stormy night the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (1850)Ģ1. Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me had they duly considered how much depended upon what they were then doing -that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind -and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost:-Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,-I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me. Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (1915)ġ9. This is the saddest story I have ever heard. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)ġ8. Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951)ġ7. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler (1979 trans. You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested. Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)ġ3. You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer but that ain't no matter. Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts (1933)ġ2. The Miss Lonelyhearts of the New York Post-Dispatch (Are you in trouble?-Do-you-need-advice?-Write-to-Miss-Lonelyhearts-and-she-will-help-you) sat at his desk and stared at a piece of white cardboard. Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859)ġ0. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967 trans. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973)Ĥ.
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Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)ģ. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.