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26 Great First Lines From Literature

Opening lines listed on the coffee mug titled, "The Greatest First Lines of Literature Ever," from the Unemployed Philosopher's Guild. (in alphabetical order)
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1
Mark Twain
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
2
Leo Tolstoy
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
3
Toni Morrison
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
4
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
5
J.D. Salinger
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
A Christmas Carol
6
Charles Dickens
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple
7
Alice Walker
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Fahrenheit 451
8
Ray Bradbury
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow
9
Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
10
F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
11
Marcel Proust
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
12
Ralph Ellison
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
13
Vladimir Nabokov
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
The Metamorphosis
14
Franz Kafka
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
15
Herman Melville
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs. Dalloway
16
Virginia Woolf
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
17
George Orwell
Notes From the Underground (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Notes From the Underground
18
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
19
Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
20
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Plague (Albert Camus)
The Plague
21
Albert Camus
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
22
Jane Austen
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five
23
Kurt Vonnegut
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
24
Albert Camus
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
25
Charles Dickens
The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Tell-Tale Heart
26
Edgar Allan Poe
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