Unfurling below you are unidentified first lines of novels.
Please begin the beguine. Some of these are translations, and I feel a bit odd about that, like I should post it in the original. A couple of these books I have ONLY read in their original language – one in particular – I think the first line of this particular book is FAR better in the original language – but oh well. No need to be too pedantic.
(Emily? If you’re out there? I posted a couple of these for you. You too, Dan – one of these I picked out for you, knowing that you love the author – or … I seem to recall that you do!)
Oh, and provide title and author, please. (There’s a bunch still un-guessed in the lines I posted earlier today.)
Have at it.
I’m late. Which one was for me?
Don’t you love Robert Louis Stevenson? Or did I imagine that? I put in Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for you.
I do like RLS but I haven’t read Jekyll and Hyde yet. Unbelievable, I know.
Oh, you’ve got to! Here’s the first line.