Famous First Lines Contest
The library held a “Famous First Lines Contest” during Community Day on Saturday, October 7. One person got every question right and won a $25.00 gift certificate to Barnes and Noble.
Here are the answers:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, ………
Title: Tale of Two Cities
Author: Charles Dickens
“Call me Ishmael.”
Title: Moby Dick
Author: Herman Melville
“Happy families are all alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Title: Anna Karenina
Author: Leo Tolstoy
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Title: Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous vermin.”
Title: The Metamorphosis
Author: Franz Kafka
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
Title: Rebecca
Author: Daphne Du Maurier
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
Title: 1984
Author: George Orwell
“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.”
Title: David Copperfield
Author: Charles Dickens
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”
Title: The Catcher in the Rye
Author: J.D. Salinger