Which work begins “Call me Ishmael”?
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Moby-Dick
Captain Ahab hunts the white whale.
💡 Did you know? It is one of the most famous opening lines.
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Which work begins “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”?
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A Tale of Two Cities
It is set in London and Paris during the Revolution.
💡 Did you know? It is among the best-selling novels ever.
Which work begins “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”?
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Anna Karenina
It tells a tragic love story.
💡 Did you know? The line is known as the “Anna Karenina principle”.
Which work begins with Gregor Samsa finding himself turned into “a monstrous vermin”?
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The Metamorphosis
The opening is among the most famous in literature.
💡 Did you know? Kafka leaves open what exactly Gregor became.
Which work begins “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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Pride and Prejudice
The line is meant ironically.
💡 Did you know? It opens one of the best-loved novels.
Which work begins “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen”?
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1984
The 13 signals a world gone wrong.
💡 Did you know? The novel coined the term “Big Brother”.
Which work begins “In a hole in the ground there lived …”?
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The Hobbit
The hobbit is Bilbo Baggins.
💡 Did you know? It is the prequel to “The Lord of the Rings”.
Which work begins with Mr and Mrs Dursley being proud to be “perfectly normal”?
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Harry Potter
The Dursleys are Harry's stuffy relatives.
💡 Did you know? It's the first book, “The Philosopher's Stone”.
Which work begins with a father's advice not to judge others, since not everyone had the advantages the narrator had?
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The Great Gatsby
It is set in the roaring 1920s.
💡 Did you know? The narrator is Nick Carraway.
Which work begins “Light of my life, fire of my loins”?
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Lolita
The novel is a stylistic masterpiece and was highly controversial.
💡 Did you know? Nabokov wrote it in English, not Russian.
Which work opens with a child's repeated question “What is this?. What is this …”?
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Buddenbrooks
It chronicles the decline of a merchant family.
💡 Did you know? Thomas Mann won the Nobel Prize for it.
Which work begins “Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know”?
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The Stranger
The detached hero is Meursault.
💡 Did you know? The novel is a key work of absurdism.
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