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The Best Opening Lines in Literature - Page 5

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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The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
162
Franz Kafka
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel (Louise Murphy)
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
163
Louise Murphy
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
164
James Joyce
The Unnamable
The Unnamable
165
Valley of the Dolls (Jacqueline Susann)
Valley of the Dolls
166
Jacqueline Susann
The Violent Bear It Away (Flannery O'Connor)
The Violent Bear It Away
167
Flannery O'Connor
A Visit From the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan)
A Visit From the Goon Squad
168
Jennifer Egan
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (C.S. Lewis)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
169
C.S. Lewis
Waiting
Waiting
170
The Waves (Virginia Woolf)
The Waves
171
Virginia Woolf
White Teeth (Zadie Smith)
White Teeth
172
Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
Wide Sargasso Sea
173
Jean Rhys
The Wings of the Dove (Henry James)
The Wings of the Dove
174
Henry James
Wittgenstein's Mistress (David Markson)
Wittgenstein's Mistress
175
David Markson
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