First lines

After finishing The Thirteenth Tale, and heaving back into my comfy chair with a satisfied grin on my face....I've been thinking about what to read next. It has to be something good, after a book like that.

In The Thirteenth Tale, the books Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are mentioned a lot. I've read Jane Eyre and I own Wuthering Heights but haven't read it yet, so that is the book that I've chosen.

The first line "1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with." Oooohh. Tell. Me. More.

I love the first sentence in books, don't you? When I look at a new book, I always turn to the first page to read the first sentence. Sometimes it's disappointing, sometimes it's neutral and sometimes it just pulls you in right away. Here are some random sentences from some of my favourite books on my bookshelf. Can you identify the books from their first sentences?

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

"One evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were approaching the large village of Weydon-Priors, in Upper Wessex, on foot."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day."

"They're all dead now."