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Famous First Lines Quiz
Have you ever picked up one of your favourite books, opened to the first page and felt like you were reunited with an old friend? See how many of these famous first lines from literature you can identify!
 
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1. 'All children, except one, grow up.'
  A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
  Stuart Little by E.B. White
  The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
  Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
 
2. 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.'
  Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
  Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
  Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
 
3. 'Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,' grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.'
  Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
 
4. 'The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail.'
  Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  The Call of the Wild by Jack London
  Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  Jaws by Peter Benchley
 
5. 'It was a pleasure to burn.'
  The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
  Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
 
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