I Love Book Lists!
100 Best First Lines from Novels.
Look what made the list:
22. It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. —Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830)
Seen in
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Only look behind the cut if you are bored.
The ones I've read:
#1
#2
#4
#5
#6
#9
#12
#16
#28
#44
#45
#48
#50
#56
#58
#59
#61
#64
#65
#88
#90
#97
#100
Look what made the list:
22. It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. —Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830)
Seen in
jmhm.Only look behind the cut if you are bored.
The ones I've read:
#1
#2
#4
#5
#6
#9
#12
#16
#28
#44
#45
#48
#50
#56
#58
#59
#61
#64
#65
#88
#90
#97
#100