What Is The First Sentence...

[Khandro]

..... of the book you are presently reading? I'll start with.... err, no someone else start please, I'll tell you later

[Khandro]

lankeela: Lassie Come Home ? :0)

[Mamyalynne]

Lankeela - Rudyard Kipling's
Thy Servant a Dog.

[lady-janine]

Well done mamy. I can never know any of them.

[lankeela]

Yes Mamy - Kipling is my favourite poet/author. The River's Tale is my all time favourite poem. 'Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew, wanted to know what the river knew, for they were young and the Thames was old and this is the tale that the river told.

[Mamyalynne]

The one you're reading sounds wonderful,love the premise.

[Atheist]

It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.

[Atheist]

(Initials of the author are, amusingly, AB)

[jennyjoan]

the gambler boris johnson

[jennyjoan]

^^^ LOL - didn't give you the first sentence - just the title of the book

[McMouse]

In the beginning......

[Khandro]

Atheist; Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess. At least 40 years since I read it but who could forget that?

[Khandro]

Having moved on to a book I've wanted to read all my life, - a great literary omission, & thanks to lockdown I finally made it : 'The Tale of Two Cities' which just happens to have one of the most famous (& longest) first sentences in the English language;

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.'