This first line: which novel?
Ten famous opening lines, ten novels to match: do you know the book behind each one?
What this quiz asks
- 1“Mother died today.” Which novel opens on this line?
- 2“For a long time, I used to go to bed early.” Where does this opening come from?
- 3“Call me Ishmael.” Which novel begins this way?
- 4“Here's how it started.” Which story kicks off with these words?
- 5“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Which novel do you recognise?
- 6“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Which novel is this?
- 7“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” Which dystopia opens like this?
- 8“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect.” Which text?
- 9“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.” Which novel carries this opening?
- 10“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.” Which novel?
