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Can you name the words to complete the first lines of these famous literary works?
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Lord of the Flies
Pride and Prejudice
To Kill a Mockingbird
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Hobbit
The Color Purple
Brave New World
Catch-22
Peter Pan
Gravity's Rainbow
Fahrenheit 451
Slaughterhouse-Five
Elmer Gantry
Moby-Dick
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First Lines of Famous Novels Quiz
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Created Mar 15, 2011 in
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Sarahbelle
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Mar 16th, 2011 at 05:50 GMT
3 points
Spectacular. Volume 2?
sproutcm
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Mar 16th, 2011 at 05:53 GMT
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@Sarahbelle Yep! I started it already, but I'm open to suggestions for the open slots.
kcostell
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Mar 16th, 2011 at 09:16 GMT
1 point
For the next volume, how about Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"?
JimmyJames
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Mar 16th, 2011 at 14:05 GMT
2 points
Oddly enough, I think the first sentence of the second chapter in Slaughterhouse-Five is more memorable, since that's where the story (in a linear manner of speaking) begins. Some good choices here, and I look forward to the sequel!
LTH
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Mar 16th, 2011 at 16:19 GMT
2 points
@Sprout, for the sequel, how about The Great Gatsby, Harry Potter, Atlas Shrugged, and A Christmas Carol? I think you have a separate quiz for A Tale of Two Cities, but you could include that as well (if you don't mind having Dickens twice).
Karras
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Mar 16th, 2011 at 23:39 GMT
2 points
I second LTH, and offer for consideration Anna Karenina, The Trial, and The Satanic Verses.
catcherj
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Mar 19th, 2011 at 20:47 GMT
1 point
How about The Prince and either Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn for the sequel?
HER
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Mar 22nd, 2011 at 17:18 GMT
2 points
Reading these, you can really see why they're all considered classics. So many of these sentences are really just beautiful.
JadeHarp
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Apr 1st, 2011 at 21:44 GMT
1 point
On the Road might be good one for the sequel.
samivel
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Apr 6th, 2011 at 10:43 GMT
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This was brilliant, a definite 5-globe job. Could you please accept 'storeys' as an alternate answer for the final Brave New World word, though?
jblanch
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Apr 16th, 2011 at 00:43 GMT
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