Open Thread: Best Opening Lines?
Dickens, Orwell, Tolkien, Barrie, and Rowling Take the Top 5 Spots. Who Else Deserves a Nod?
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Pretty good description of last week—and also the start of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities. A recent poll named it the best opening line of a work of literature. The rest of the top five?
George Orwell, 1984: “It was …
