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Moby-Dick by Herman Melville The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 1984 by George Orwell Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
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Leo Tolstoy
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
tags: family, first-sentence
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Thomas Pynchon
“A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
tags: haunting, sky, war
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Herman Melville
“Call me Ishmael.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
tags: first-sentence, introduction, opening-lines, sobriquet
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