The first use of this classic opening line was written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton for his 1830 novel Paul Clifford. It was also used in the 1962 novel by Madeleine L’Engle called A Wrinkle in Time. I was introduced to the line, as were many others I’m sure, by Snoopy---through another literary classic----Peanuts. Below you will find the opening lines of 10 classic books. Some you may have read, some you may have seen via the Big Screen version. Find the names of the books and use the DR of the full name as directed below to calculate the coordinates.
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A) In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. (DR)
B) The boy with the fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon. (DR)
C) He sat in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher—the Wonder House, as the natives called the Lahore Museum. (DR + 3)
D) I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father’s house. (DR)
E) I have never begun a novel with more misgiving. (DR)
F) Forty-Two miles below San Ysidro, on a great north-south highway in California, there is a crossroad which for eighty-odd years has been called Rebel Corners. (DR - 4 )
G) Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. (DR + 2)
H) Although she herself was ill enough to justify being in bed had she been a person weak-minded enough to give up, Rose Sayer could see that her brother, the Reverend Samuel Sayer, was far more ill. (DR)
I) The first time I laid eyes on Terry Lennox he was drunk, in a Rolls- Royce Silver Wraith outside the terrace of The Dancers.(DR + 4)
J) I have just returned from a visit to my landlord---the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. (DR+2)
FTF is rewarded with a $5 Tim card and a classic Little Leather Library book of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
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