100 Best First Lines Of Novels (Of The Day)

Selections from top 100 list, as decided by the American Book Review, a nonprofit journal published at the Unit for Contemporary Literature at Illinois State University.94. In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together. – Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)80. Justice? – You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law. – William Gaddis, A