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100 句世界名著中最著名的开场白

Following is a list of the 100 best first lines from novels, as decided by the American

Book Review, a nonprofit journal published at the Unit for Contemporary Literature

at Illinois State University:

1. Call me Ishmael. - Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)

2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good

fortune, must be in want of a wife. - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)

3. A screaming comes across the sky. - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

4. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to

remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. - Gabriel

García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967; trans. Gregory Rabassa)

5. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. - Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955)

6. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. - Leo

Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877; trans. Constance Garnett)

7. riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by

a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. - James Joyce,

Finnegans Wake (1939)

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

Orwell, 1984 (1949)

9. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it

was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,

it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope,

it was the winter of despair. - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

10. I am an invisible man. - Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)

11. The Miss Lonelyhearts of the New York Post-Dispatch (Are you in trouble?Do-

you-need-advice?Write-to-Miss-Lonelyhearts-and-she-will-help-you) sat at his desk

and stared at a piece of white cardboard. - Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts

(1933)

12. You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The

Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. Mark Twain, Adventures of

Huckleberry Finn (1885)

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13. Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done

anything truly wrong, he was arrested. Franz Kafka, The Trial (1925; trans. Breon

Mitchell)

14. You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a

traveler. Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler (1979; trans. William Weaver)

15. The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. Samuel Beckett,

Murphy (1938)

16. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is

where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were

occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but

I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. - J. D. Salinger, The

Catcher in the Rye (1951)

17. Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming

down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a

nicens little boy named baby tuckoo. - James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a

Young Man (1916)

18. This is the saddest story I have ever heard. - Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier

(1915)

19. I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in

duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot

me; had they duly considered how much depended upon what they were then

doing;that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that

possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and

the very cast of his mind;and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes

of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which

were then uppermost:Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded

accordingly,I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the

world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me. - Laurence Sterne, Tristram

Shandy (1759n1767)

20. 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)

21. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather

on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. - James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)

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. -

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Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830)

23. One summer afternoon Mrs. Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party

whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she,

Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one

Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars

in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job

of sorting it all out more than honorary. - Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

(1966)

24. It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the

dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not. - Paul

Auster, City of Glass (1985)

25. Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. -

William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929)

26. 124 was spiteful. - Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)

27. Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a

gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a

shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing. - Miguel de Cervantes, Don

Quixote (1605; trans. Edith Grossman)

28. Mother died today. - Albert Camus, The Stranger (1942; trans. Stuart Gilbert)

29. Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu. -

Ha Jin, Waiting (1999)

30. The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. -

William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)

31. I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from

Underground (1864; trans. Michael R. Katz)

32. Where now? Who now? When now? - Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable (1953;

trans. Patrick Bowles)

33. Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own

orchard. "Stop!" cried the groaning old man at last, "Stop! I did not drag my father

beyond this tree." - Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans (1925)

34. In a sense, I am Jacob Horner. - John Barth, The End of the Road (1958)

35. It was like so, but wasn't. - Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2 (1995)

36. Money . . . in a voice that rustled. - William Gaddis, J R (1975)

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37. Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. - Virginia Woolf, Mrs.

Dalloway (1925)

38. All this happened, more or less. - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

39. They shoot the white girl first. - Toni Morrison, Paradise (1998)

40. For a long time, I went to bed early. - Marcel Proust, Swann's Way (1913; trans.

Lydia Davis)

41. The moment one learns English, complications set in. - Felipe Alfau, Chromos

(1990)

42. Dr. Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature. - Anita

Brookner, The Debut (1981)

43. I was the shadow of the waxwing slain / By the false azure in the windowpane; -

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (1962)

44. Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. - Zora Neale Hurston, Their

Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

45. I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in

such cases, each time it was a different story. - Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome (1911)

46. Ages ago, Alex, Allen and Alva arrived at Antibes, and Alva allowing all, allowing

anyone, against Alex's admonition, against Allen's angry assertion: another African

amusement . . . anyhow, as all argued, an awesome African army assembled and

arduously advanced against an African anthill, assiduously annihilating ant after ant,

and afterward, Alex astonishingly accuses Albert as also accepting Africa's antipodal

ant annexation. - Walter Abish, Alphabetical Africa (1974)

47. There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. - C.

S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)

48. He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had

gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. - Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man

and the Sea (1952)

49. It was the day my grandmother exploded. - Iain M. Banks, The Crow Road

(1992)

50. I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in

January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near

Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. - Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (2002)

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