100 Famous Novels With Catchy First Line
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Call me Ishmael.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Herman Melville Adventure,Classics,Literature,Ocean,Whaling,Animals,Adult,Medieval,Education Adventure novel,Children's literature,Fiction,Sea story 1851-10-18 Moby-Dick,Moby Dick,Moby-Dick (Penguin Classics),Moby Dick (Signet Classics) English -
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Jane Austen 19th century,Classics,England,Family,Great Britain,History,English,English Literature,Humanities,Literary criticism,Literature,Self-help,Arts,Language,Education Children's literature,Fiction,Novel,Romance novel,Romantic comedy 1813-01-28 Pride and Prejudice,Pride and Prejudice (Pride & Prejudice),Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics),Pride And Prejudice (Scholastic Classics),Pride and Prejudice (Longman Fiction),Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics),The annotated Pride and prejudice English -
A screaming comes across the sky.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Thomas Pynchon Historical novel,Postmodernism,Science fiction 1973 Gravity's Rainbow English -
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Gabriel García Márquez Latin America Novel 1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude,One Hundred Years of Solitude. Spanish -
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Vladimir Nabokov Film,Classics,Drama,Erotica,Literary,Video,Literature,Performing arts Fiction,Novel,Romance novel 1955 Lolita,Lolita. English,Russian -
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Leo Tolstoy Adultery,Literature,Russia,Upper class,Music Novel Anna Karenina Russian -
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language James Joyce Novel 1939-05-04 Finnegans Wake English -
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Kit Reed Monarch -
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.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Charles Dickens Historical novel,Novel,18th century,British Isles,Chinese,Classics,England,English,France,French Revolution,Friendship,German,History,Italian,Literary criticism,London,Loyalty,Revenge,Fathers and Daughters,Language Historical novel,Fiction 1859 A Tale of Two Cities,A Tale of Two Cities (Signet Classics),A Tale of Two Cities (Bantam Classic),A Tale of Two Cities (Ladybird Children's Classics),A Tale of Two Cities (Cover to Cover Classics),A Tale of Two Cities (Cyber Classics),A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated Classics),A Tale of Two Cities (Collected Works of Charles Dicken English -
I am an invisible man.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Ralph Ellison Classics,Literature,People,United States,Literary,Places Bildungsroman,Children's literature,Fiction,Novel,Science fiction,Social commentary Invisible man,The Invisible Man,Invisible man. English -
The Miss Lonelyhearts of the New York Post-Dispatch (Are you in trouble?—Do-you-need-advice?—Write-to-Miss-Lonelyhearts-and-she-will-help-you) sat at his desk and stared at a piece of white cardboard.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Nathanael West Fiction 1933-04-08 Miss Lonelyhearts (American Collection),Miss Lonelyhearts English -
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.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Mark Twain 19th century,Friendship,History,Mississippi River,Missouri,Slavery,Adventure,Classics,English Literature,Humanities,Literary criticism,Literature,Arts,Education Adventure novel,Children's literature,Fiction,Satire 1884 The adventures of Huckleberry Finn,Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Signet Classics),The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade),Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade),The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete (Large Print),Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Ill English -
Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Franz Kafka Classics,Drama,Existentialism,Literature,Literary,German Dystopia,Fiction,Utopian and dystopian fiction 1925 The Trial,Trial,The Trial (Large Print),The trial. German -
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Italo Calvino 1979 Italian -
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Samuel Beckett Classics,Literature,Technology Fiction 1938 Murphy,Murphy. English -
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.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language J. D. Salinger Classics,Literary criticism,Literature,Monarch Fiction,Novel 1951-07-16 The Catcher in the Rye,Catcher in the Rye English -
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language James Joyce Ireland Autobiography,Künstlerroman,Novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,A portrait of the artist as a young man. English -
This is the saddest story I have ever heard.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Ford Madox Ford Adultery,British,Classics,Friendship,Germany,Literary,Literature,Military,Language,Education Fiction,Novel,Poetry 1915-03 The good soldier,Good Soldier,The Good Soldier (Webster's Italian Thesaurus Edition),The Good Soldier (Webster's German Thesaurus Edition),The Good Soldier (Webster's Chinese-Simplified Thesaurus Edition) English -
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much depended upon what they were then doing;—that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;—and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost:—Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,—I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy -
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.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Charles Dickens 19th century,Child labor,Coming of age,England,Great Britain,History Künstlerroman,Novel David Copperfield,David Copperfield. English -
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language James Joyce Ireland,Men Fiction,Modernism,Novel 1922-02-02 Ulysses,Ulysses. English -
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Novel 1830 English -
One summer afternoon Mrs. Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Thomas Pynchon California,Classics,Literature,Literary Fiction,Novel 1966 The Crying of Lot 49,The crying of Lot 49.,Crying of Lot 49 English -
It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Douglas Coupland 2000 English -
Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language William Faulkner Classics,English Literature,Literary criticism,Literature,Mississippi,Literary Children's literature,Fiction,Gothic fiction 1929 The Sound and the Fury,The sound and the fury.,The Sound and the Fury (Everyman's Library Classics),Sound and the Fury (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) English -
124 was spiteful.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Toni Morrison 19th century,History,Ohio,Slavery,United States,Literary,Spanish Children's literature,Fiction,Novel,Historical fiction 1987-01 Beloved,Beloved.,Beloved (Plume Contemporary Fiction) English -
Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Miguel de Cervantes Adventure,Classics,History,Literature,Literary,Music,16th century,Drama,Literary criticism,Spain,Transportation Children's literature,Fiction,Picaresque novel,Psychological novel,Satire Don Quixote,Don Quixote (Penguin Classics),Don Quixote (Classic Fiction) Spanish -
Mother died today.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Albert Camus Algeria,Classics,Existentialism,History,Murder,Literary,Literature,Suspense Fiction,Suspense fiction The Stranger/The Outsider,The stranger,Stranger French -
Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Ha Jin Novel 1999-10-01 English -
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language William Gibson Business intelligence,Japan,Nervous system Cyberpunk,Dystopia,Science fiction 1984-07-01 Neuromancer English -
I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 Notes From Underground English,Russian -
Where now? Who now? When now?more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Samuel Beckett Classics,Literature Fiction,Novel,Poetry 1953 Unnamable,The unnamable,The Unnamable (Modern Classics) French -
Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. “Stop!” cried the groaning old man at last, “Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.”more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Gerald Dorset The Making of Americans -
In a sense, I am Jacob Horner.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language -
It was like so, but wasn't.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Richard Powers Artificial intelligence,English Literature,Medical,Literary Autobiographical novel,Fiction 1995 Galatea 2.2,Galatea 2. 2,Galatea 2.2. English -
—Money . . . in a voice that rustled.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language William Gaddis Novel 1975 J R,J.R. English -
Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language David Dowling Mrs. Dalloway: mapping streams of consciousness -
All this happened, more or less.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Kurt Vonnegut Classics,Science fiction, American,World War II,Literary Fiction,Philosophy,Science fiction,Time travel in fiction,War novel,Time travel 1969 Slaughterhouse-Five,Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade,Slaughterhouse-Five.,Slaughterhouse Five,Slaughterhouse-Five (or The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death) English -
They shoot the white girl first.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Toni Morrison Oklahoma,Literary Fiction,Novel 1997-12-24 Paradise,Paradise (Oprah's Book Club) English -
For a long time, I went to bed early.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Bernard Schwartz -
The moment one learns English, complications set in.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Felipe Alfau Fiction Chromos,Chromos (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) -
42The DebutDr. Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language -
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain / By the false azure in the windowpane;more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Vladimir Nabokov Classics,Literature Fiction Pale Fire English -
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Zora Neale Hurston Classics,Florida,Literature,Literary Fiction,Novel 1937 Their Eyes Were Watching God English -
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Edith Wharton American literature,Classics,Literature,Marriage,Massachusetts,New England,Chinese,Language,Education Children's literature,Fantasy,Fiction,Horror fiction,Romance novel Ethan Frome,Ethan Frome (Signet Classics),Ethan Frome (Modern Classics),Ethan Frome (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection) (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection),Ethan Frome (Webster's Portuguese Thesaurus Edition),Ethan Frome (Webster's Chinese-Simplified Thesaurus Edition),Ethan Frome (Webster's Chinese-Tradition English -
Ages ago, Alex, Allen and Alva arrived at Antibes, and Alva allowing all, allowing anyone, against Alex's admonition, against Allen's angry assertion: another African amusement . . . anyhow, as all argued, an awesome African army assembled and arduously advanced against an African anthill, assiduously annihilating ant after ant, and afterward, Alex astonishingly accuses Albert as also accepting Africa's antipodal ant annexation.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Walter Abish Alphabetical Africa. -
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Clive Staples Lewis Children's literature,Fantasy 1952 The voyage of the Dawn Treader English -
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Ernest Hemingway Classics,Cuba,English,Literature,Ocean,Literary,English Literature,Friendship,Literary criticism Children's literature,Fiction,Sea story 1952 The Old Man and the Sea,The Old Man and the Sea (Old Man & the Sea Tr),Old Man and the Sea,The old man and the sea. (Lernmaterialien),The old man and the sea =,The Old Man and the Sea (Old Man & the Sea Illus Gift Ed C),The Old Man and the Sea (MacMillan Literature Series, Signature Edition),The Old Man and The Sea (Annual English -
It was the day my grandmother exploded.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Iain Banks Scotland Fiction,Mystery fiction,Novel,Suspense fiction 1992 The Crow Road English -
I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Jeffrey Eugenides Literary Fiction,Novel,Transgender and transsexual fiction 2002-10-07 Middlesex English -
Elmer Gantry was drunk.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Sinclair Lewis Classics,Clergy,Literature Fiction 1927-03 Elmer Gantry,Elmer Gantry.,Elmer Gantry (Signet Classics) English -
We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Robyn Davidson Australia,History,Oceania Travel TRACKS -
It was a pleasure to burn.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Ray Bradbury Classics,Drama,English,English Literature,Literature,Science fiction, American,Literary criticism Children's literature,Dystopia,Fiction,Science fiction,Utopian and dystopian fiction Fahrenheit 451,Fahrenheit 451.,Fahrenheit 451 (Library Edition) English -
A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Graham Greene 20th century,Adultery,Classics,Literature Fiction,Novel The end of the affair,The end of the affair. English -
Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Flann O'Brien Folklore,Ireland Novel 1939 At Swim-Two-Birds,At Swim, Two Birds English -
I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho' not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull; He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family in that Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call our selves, and write our Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call'd me.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Daniel Defoe Adventure,British,Classics,Folklore,Literature,Pacific Ocean,Education Adventure novel,Children's literature,Fiction,Novel 1719-04-25 Robinson Crusoe English -
In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language David Markson -
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language George Eliot 19th century,British Isles,Classics,England,Literature,Music,English,English Literature Fiction Middlemarch,Middlemarch (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection),Middlemarch (Penguin Classics),Middlemarch (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) English -
It was love at first sight.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Joseph Heller Drama,World War II Anti-war,Satire,World War II 1961-11-11 Catch-22,Catch-22.,Catch 22. American English,English -
What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you, so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings?more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Gilbert Sorrentino Literature,Literary Fiction Imaginative qualities of actual things,Imaginative qualities of actual things. -
I have never begun a novel with more misgiving.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language W. Somerset Maugham Novel 1944 The Razor's Edge English -
Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Anne Tyler Fiction 2001-05-01 Back When We Were Grownups English -
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language G. K. Chesterton Adventure,Classics,Literature Fiction 1904 The Napoleon of Notting Hill English -
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language F. Scott Fitzgerald American Dream,Classics,Jazz Age,Literature,Revenge,Music,English Literature,Humanities,Literary criticism,Reference,Upper class,Arts,Language,Education Fiction,Novel,Reference,Romance novel 1925-04-10 The Great Gatsby,Great Gatsby,The great Gatsby.,The Great Gatsby. (Lernmaterialien),THE GREAT GATSBY (Cambridge Edition; Ed. By Matthew J. Bruccoli),The Great Gatsby (Classic Books on CD) [UNABRIDGED] (Classic Books on CD),The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics),The Great Gatsby (Modern Classics) English -
You better not never tell nobody but God.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Alice Walker The color purple,THE COLOR PURPLE. English -
“To be born again,” sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, “first you have to die.”more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Salman Rushdie England,India,Literary Children's literature,Fiction,Magic realism,Novel 1988 The Satanic Verses,Satanic Verses English -
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Sylvia Plath Classics,Literary criticism,Literature,Literary Children's literature,Fiction,Roman à clef The bell jar.,The bell jar,Bell Jar English -
Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language David Foster Wallace Popular culture The broom of the system -
If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Saul Bellow Classics,Literature,United States Fiction Herzog,HERZOG. -
Francis Marion Tarwater's uncle had been dead for only half a day when the boy got too drunk to finish digging his grave and a Negro named Buford Munson, who had come to get a jug filled, had to finish it and drag the body from the breakfast table where it was still sitting and bury it in a decent and Christian way, with the sign of its Saviour at the head of the grave and enough dirt on top to keep the dogs from digging it up.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Flannery O'Connor Classics,Literature,Literary Fiction 1960 The Violent Bear It Away English -
Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Günter Grass Novel 1959 German -
When Dick Gibson was a little boy he was not Dick Gibson.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Stanley Elkin Fiction The Dick Gibson show,Dick Gibson Show,The Dick Gibson show. -
Hiram Clegg, together with his wife Emma and four friends of the faith from Randolph Junction, were summoned by the Spirit and Mrs. Clara Collins, widow of the beloved Nazarene preacher Ely Collins, to West Condon on the weekend of the eighteenth and nineteenth of April, there to await the End of the World.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Robert Coover Pennsylvania The origin of the Brunists,The origin of the Brunists. -
She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Henry James England,Italy Novel The wings of the dove,The wings of the dove. English -
In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Ernest Hemingway Classics,Italy,Literature,Military,Literary,World War I Autobiographical novel,Fiction,Romance novel,War,War novel 1929 A Farewell to Arms,A Farewell to Arms (Farewell to Arms Tr),Farewell to Arms (A Scribner Classic),A Farewell to Arms (Vintage Classics) English -
Take my camel, dear,' said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Rose Macaulay British Adventure novel,Autobiographical novel 1956 The towers of Trebizond,The towers of Trebizond. English -
He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Joseph Conrad Adventure,British,Classics,Indonesia,Literature,Music,Chinese,English Literature,Linguistics,Literary criticism,Monarch,Other,Language,Education Children's literature,Fiction,Psychological novel,Science fiction Lord Jim,Lord Jim.,Lord Jim (Signet Classics),Lord Jim (Bantam Classics),Lord Jim : The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' : Typhoon : Nostromo English -
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language -
On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Russell Hoban Nuclear warfare Fiction,Science fiction,Utopian and dystopian fiction 1980 Riddley Walker English -
Justice?—You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language William Gaddis Literary Fiction,Novel 1994 A Frolic of His Own English -
Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language J. G. Ballard Women Fiction,Novel 1973 Crash English -
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Dodie Smith Classics,England,Literature,Literary Comedy,Fiction,Novel,Romance novel 1948 I capture the castle,I Capture the Castle (Chivers Sound Library) (Chivers Sound Library) English -
“When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets,” Papa would say, “she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.”more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Katherine Dunn Family Fiction,Novel 1989 Geek love,Geek love. English -
In the last years of the Seventeenth Century there was to be found among the fops and fools of the London coffee-houses one rangy, gangling flitch called Ebenezer Cooke, more ambitious than talented, and yet more talented than prudent, who, like his friends-in-folly, all of whom were supposed to be educating at Oxford or Cambridge, had found the sound of Mother English more fun to game with than her sense to labor over, and so rather than applying himself to the pains of scholarship, had learned the knack of versifying, and ground out quires of couplets after the fashion of the day, afroth with Joves and Jupiters, aclang with jarring rhymes, and string-taut with similes stretched to the snapping-point.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language John Barth The sot-weed factor -
When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language James Crumley Montana -
It was just noon that Sunday morning when the sheriff reached the jail with Lucas Beauchamp though the whole town (the whole county too for that matter) had known since the night before that Lucas had killed a white man.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language William Faulkner Classics,Mississippi Crime fiction,Fiction Intruder in the dust,Intruder in the dust. -
I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as “Claudius the Idiot,” or “That Claudius,” or “Claudius the Stammerer,” or “Clau-Clau-Claudius” or at best as “Poor Uncle Claudius,” am now about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and continuing year by year until I reach the fateful point of change where, some eight years ago, at the age of fifty-one, I suddenly found myself caught in what I may call the “golden predicament” from which I have never since become disentangled.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Robert Graves Classics,History,Rome,Literary Fiction,Historical novel,Historical fiction I, Claudius,I Claudius English -
Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I've come to learn, is women.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Charles R. Johnson Fiction,Historical novel 1990 Middle Passage English -
I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Saul Bellow Literature,Mexico,Literary Fiction,Picaresque novel 1953 The adventures of Augie March,Adventures of Augie March (1301),The adventures of Augie March. English -
The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Sinclair Lewis Classics,Drama,Literary criticism,Literature,Literary,Theater,Theatre Children's literature,Fiction,Romance novel,Satire 1922 Babbitt,Babbitt (Signet Classics),Babbitt (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics),Babbitt (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection) [UNABRIDGED] (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection) English -
I will tell you in a few words who I am: lover of the hummingbird that darts to the flower beyond the rotted sill where my feet are propped; lover of bright needlepoint and the bright stitching fingers of humorless old ladies bent to their sweet and infamous designs; lover of parasols made from the same puffy stuff as a young girl's underdrawers; still lover of that small naval boat which somehow survived the distressing years of my life between her decks or in her pilothouse; and also lover of poor dear black Sonny, my mess boy, fellow victim and confidant, and of my wife and child. But most of all, lover of my harmless and sanguine self.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Paul McAuley Adventure Fiction,Science fiction Second Skin (Great Science Fiction Stories) -
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Rafael Sabatini France,History,French Revolution 1921 Scaramouche,Scaramouche. -
Psychics can see the color of time it's blue.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Franklin W. Dixon Adventure,Young adult,Men Children's literature,Detective fiction,Fiction,Mystery fiction Blown Away (Hardy Boys Casefiles, Case 108),Blown Away (Hardy Boys (All New) Undercover Brothers) English -
In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Carson McCullers Classics,Friendship,Literature,Literary Fiction 1940 The heart is a lonely hunter,Heart Is A Lonely Hunter,Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, the (Twentieth Century Classics),The Heart is a Lonely Hunter/Reflections in a Golden Eye/The Ballad of the Sad Cafe/The Member of the Wedding/The Clock Without Hands (Library of America),The heart is a lonely hunter. English -
Once upon a time two or three weeks ago, a rather stubborn and determined middle-aged man decided to record for posterity, exactly as it happened, word by word and step by step, the story of another man for indeed what is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal, a somewhat paranoiac fellow unmarried, unattached, and quite irresponsible, who had decided to lock himself in a room a furnished room with a private bath, cooking facilities, a bed, a table, and at least one chair, in New York City, for a year 365 days to be precise, to write the story of another person—a shy young man about of 19 years old—who, after the war the Second World War, had come to America the land of opportunities from France under the sponsorship of his uncle—a journalist, fluent in five languages—who himself had come to America from Europe Poland it seems, though this was not clearly established sometime during the war after a series of rather gruesome adventures, and who, at the end of the war, wrote to the father his cousin by marriage of the young man whom he considered as a nephew, curious to know if he the father and his family had survived the German occupation, and indeed was deeply saddened to learn, in a letter from the young man—a long and touching letter written in English, not by the young man, however, who did not know a damn word of English, but by a good friend of his who had studied English in school—that his parents both his father and mother and his two sisters one older and the other younger than he had been deported they were Jewish to a German concentration camp Auschwitz probably and never returned, no doubt having been exterminated deliberately X * X * X * X, and that, therefore, the young man who was now an orphan, a displaced person, who, during the war, had managed to escape deportation by working very hard on a farm in Southern France, would be happy and grateful to be given the opportunity to come to America that great country he had heard so much about and yet knew so little about to start a new life, possibly go to school, learn a trade, and become a good, loyal citizen.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Dennis Foon Adolescence,Gambling Children's literature,Fiction -
Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Margaret Atwood Künstlerroman,Novel 1988-09 Cat's Eye English -
He—for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it—was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Jerrell H Shofner Orlando: the city beautiful,Orlando: The City Beautiful (American portrait series) -
High, high above the North Pole, on the first day of 1969, two professors of English Literature approached each other at a combined velocity of 1200 miles per hour.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language David Lodge British,England,United States,Literary Campus novel,Fiction 1975 Changing Places,Changing Places (Portway Large Print Series) English -
They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Jean Rhys British,Jamaica Romance novel,Historical fiction,Parallel novel 1966-10 Wide Sargasso Sea,Wide Sargasso Sea.,Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Modern Classics),Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Student Editions) English -
The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.more info
author subjects genre date_of_first_publication editions original_language Stephen Crane Coming of age,History,United States,Virginia,American Civil War 1895 The red badge of courage,The red badge of courage.
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