pride and pregudice – Matthew Dicks

Great first sentences (and an analysis of the first sentences of my own novels)

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I have no definitive favorite first line of a novel, though I am partial to the first line of Slaughterhouse Five: "All this happened, more or less." Also, Fahrenheit 451:…

Neither true nor universally acknowledged

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Post published:August 13, 2013
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My wife’s favorite first line from literature comes Pride and Prejudice: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in…

I’m an Elizabeth Bennet.

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Post published:February 3, 2013
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is 200 years old this week. In celebration of this anniversary, Anglerfish Magazine created a “Which Pride and Prejudice Character Are You?” flowchart. Usually these flowcharts are…

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Great first sentences (and an analysis of the first sentences of my own novels)

Neither true nor universally acknowledged

I’m an Elizabeth Bennet.

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