Can you name the titles of these well-known books from their first lines?

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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.F. Scott Fitzgerald
Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng!Richard Wright
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.Charles Dickens
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune, must be in want of a wife.Jane Austen
All this happened, more or less.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The time traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.H. G. Wells
It was love at first sight.Joseph Heller
Call me Ishmael.Herman Melville
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.George Orwell
A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories.Aldous Huxley
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.John Steinbeck
When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.Franz Kafka
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.Charlotte Brontë
Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.Margaret Mitchell
On January 6, 1482, the people of Paris were awakened by the tumultuous clanging of all the bells in the city.Victor Hugo
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.Joseph Conrad
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.Edith Wharton
Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.William Faulkner
I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.Emily Brontë
Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York.Betty Smith
Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton.Ernest Hemingway
They're out there.Ken Kesey
It was four o'clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.Upton Sinclair
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My father had a small state in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons.Jonathan Swift
They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life.Elie Wiesel
It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered, before the adverse hosts could meet.James Fenimore Cooper
'Yes, of course, if it's fine tomorrow,' said Mrs. Ramsay.Virginia Woolf
Howard Roark laughed.Ayn Rand
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.Sylvia Plath
I went back to the Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before.John Knowles
The day broke grey and dull.W. Somerset Maugham
It was a pleasure to burn.Ray Bradbury
The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.William Golding
All children, except one, grow up.J. M. Barrie
Except for the Marabar Caves - and they are twenty miles off - the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.E. M. Forster
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Leo Tolstoy
We were in study hall when the headmaster walked in, followed by a new boy not wearing a school uniform, and by a janitor carrying a large desk.Gustave Flaubert
In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together.Carson McCullers
The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.Stephen Crane
'What's it going to be then, eh?'Anthony Burgess
'Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,' grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.Louisa May Alcott
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.Harper Lee
I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up.Jack Kerouac
For a long time, I used to go to bed early.Marcel Proust
On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. Bridge.Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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