Fifty more great opening lines from American novels

Fifty more great opening lines, identified

Lysley Tenorio: Bharati Mukherjee as catalyst and inspiration

Willa Cather, “Paul’s Case”

Ernest Hemingway, “A Veteran Visits the Old Front—Wishes He Had Stayed Away”

Monique Truong: Lafcadio Hearn’s wandering life as a search for home

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Lancaster Hill, Peter Bess, Brister Slenser, Prince Hall, et al. — “The natural right of all Men—& their Children”

Deborah Baker on Lafcadio Hearn and “the Orient at home”

Martin J. Sherwin: At his core, Jonathan Schell was a philosopher

Zora Neale Hurston: Video of her ethnographic work in Florida in 1928

Fifty of the most memorable opening lines in American novels—revealed!

Read, discuss: Fifty of the most memorable opening lines in American novels

Ambrose Bierce, “Working for an Empress”

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W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Souls of White Folk”