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What is your favorite opening line in a novel?

Mine is the opening sentence of George Orwell's "1984": "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

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Question added by Dina Khatib , Brand and Communications Manager , Bayt.com
Date Posted: 2015/05/27
Dr Yasmeen Majeed
by Dr Yasmeen Majeed , Trainer and HOD

'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of good fortune, must be in want of a wife.' Jane Austen: pride and prejudice (1913)

Mohamed Khedr
by Mohamed Khedr , Researcher , Helmholtz Center Munich

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.

A Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens

Khaled Belgacem
by Khaled Belgacem , Teacher of English , Pioneer High School Gafsa

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. —Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (1850)

Mohamed Magdy Ahmed El Demerdash
by Mohamed Magdy Ahmed El Demerdash , Internal Auditor, Quality Assurance Department , Giza Cable Industries

I didn't use to read novels since graduation !!

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