famous opening lines
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FROM: "Dennis Lien" <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 1/31/00, 10:33 AM
Other print reference tools to opening lines of literary works
exist besides the Spiegel and Bauer titles; perhaps one or more can be
found in a library near you or ordered on interlibrary loan...? See:
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Title: Call me Ishmael : 801 memorable first and last lines in
literature / compiled by David A. Spector.
Published: Secaucus, NJ : Carol Pub. Group, c1995.
Description: x, 218 p. ; 16 cm.
Subjects, Library of Congress (Use s=):
Openings (Rhetoric)
Closure (Rhetoric)
Quotations, English.
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Author: Weaver, Bruce L.
Title: Novel openers : first sentences of 11,000 fictional works,
topically arranged with subject, keyword, author, and title
indexing / by Bruce L. Weaver.
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1995.
Description: ix, 986 p. ; 27 cm.
Subjects, Library of Congress (Use s=):
Fiction--Indexes.
Openings (Rhetoric)--Indexes.
Quotations, English.
I'm not sure if the next two are collections of such openings or critical
works about the techniques thereof (but even if the latter case is true
they presumably will cite examples):
Author: Newlove, Donald.
Title: First paragraphs : inspired openings for writers and readers /
Donald Newlove.
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1992.
Description: 171 p. ; 19 cm.
Subjects, Library of Congress (Use s=):
Openings (Rhetoric)
Authorship.
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Author: Nuttall, A. D. (Anthony David)
Title: Openings : narrative beginnings from the epic to the novel /
A.D. Nuttall.
Published: Oxford, [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford
University Press, 1992.
Description: x, 255 p. ; 23 cm.
Subjects, Library of Congress (Use s=):
Openings (Rhetoric)
Narration (Rhetoric)
Epic poetry--History and criticism.
Fiction--History and criticism.
For good measure, here's a collection of closing lines:
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Title: Great endings : closing lines of great novels / [compiled by]
Georgianne Ensign.
Edition: 1st ed.
Published: New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, c1995.
Description: x, 276 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Subjects, Library of Congress (Use s=):
Fiction--Technique.
Closure (Rhetoric)
Quotations, English.
And, while it won't help much with recent titles, one could always go to
the On-Line Books Page at
<A HREF="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/">http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/</A>
to find links to literary and other works available on the Web and
harvest first lines from them directly one at a time.
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
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