Opening Lines

1."Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice" opens this 1967 novel.

2."All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" opens this Tolstoy novel.

3."It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" opens this 1949 dystopian novel.

4."Call me Ishmael" opens this 1851 American novel about the hunt for a white whale.

5."It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" opens this Dickens novel set in London and Paris.