Best First Lines
Sense and Sensibility - “The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex.”
Pride and Prejudice – “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Persuasion – “Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up a book but the Baronetage”.
Northanger Abbey – “No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine.
Mansfield Park – “About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram of Mansfield Park.”
Emma – “Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
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