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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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Tracks
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The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
163
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel (Louise Murphy)
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel (Louise Murphy)
164
Ulysses
Ulysses
165
The Unnamable
The Unnamable
166
Valley of the Dolls
Valley of the Dolls
167
The Violent Bear It Away
The Violent Bear It Away
168
A Visit From the Goon Squad
A Visit From the Goon Squad
169
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
170
Waiting
Waiting
171
The Waves
The Waves
172
White Teeth
White Teeth
173
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
174
The Wings of the Dove
The Wings of the Dove
175
Wittgenstein's Mistress
Wittgenstein's Mistress
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