What's that book?

[dadof4]

Can you guess the title of a book by a famous line taken from that book? Let's start with an easy one.

"It was the best of time, it was the worst of times."

Add your famous line and see how we do.

[IM4given]

A Tale of Two Cities?

[Anon]

Sounds right to me!

This one isn't a book but its a popular story by a famous author:

"One dollar and sixty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies."

[joyfulpraise93]

The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry



"Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss."

[dadof4]

The Count of Monte Cristo



"All I ever wanted, was to be loved for myself. "

[matie-k]

Ok, I had to google it - Phantom of the Opera

"God bless us everyone!" (or something like that)

[Anon]

Ok, I had to google it - Phantom of the Opera

"God bless us everyone!" (or something like that)

I googled it too but didn't post.. haha.

Your quote, is it the first line of a book? Its "A Christmas Carol" but I didn't know it was the first phrase....




"My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip."

[jchahl]

Great Expectations

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."

[dadof4]

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier


There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

[Kayla]

The Picture of Dorian Gray which incidentally was changed into the Portrait of Dorian Gray when made into a movie...

""The truest friend does not doubt, but hope""

[HappyChristian]

Emma

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man
in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a good
wife".

[Kayla]

That one is very easy. Pride and Prejudice. Which may I add was written in a different writing style entirely than any of Jane Austen's other novels.








"There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think."

[HappyChristian]

Les Miserables

Another easy one: "Call me Ishmael."

[Kayla]

Moby Dick









"But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way."

[HappyChristian]

Northanger Abbey


"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of..."

Had to leave off the last part or it would have given it away! :Green