Top ten opening lines of novels in the English language

At the Guardian, Robert McCrum came up with ten of the best opening lines of novels in the English language, including:Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice (1813)

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” The one everyone knows (and quotes). Parodied, spoofed, and misremembered, Austen’s celebrated zinger remains the