19 Classical Beginning of Literature
Love in the time of Cholera
It was inevitable : the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
Lolita
Lolita , light of my fire , fire of my loins . My sin , my soul . Lo-lee-ta : the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down ...
The Portrait of a Lady
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Peter Pan
All children , except one , grow up.
Middlemarch
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
Catch-22
It was love of first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.
Murphy
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
Moby-Dick
Call me Ishmael.
The Metamorphosis——It is German ,and I don’t know how to say.
Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren...——《Die Verwandlung》
The Go-Between
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
The Great Gatsby
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since....
Wide Sargasso Sea——As a companion piece to Jane Eyre.
They say when trouble comes close ranks , and so the white people did.
The Catcher in the Rye
If you really want to hear about it , the first thing you'll probably know is where I was born , and what my ...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER , but that ain't no matter....
The Bell Jar
It was a queer , sultry summer , the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs , and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
1984
It was a bright cold day in April , and the clocks were striking thirteen.
A Tale of Two Cities
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, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light , it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.
Anna Karenina
All happy families resemble one another , but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Pride and Prejudice
It is a truth universally acknowledged , that a single man in possession of a good fortune , must be in want of a wife.
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