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[SIZE=14pt]Here is a list of first lines of well known books (Well I know them even if I haven't read them 
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[SIZE=14pt]All I need is the title and the author and [/SIZE] (if you want - but I don't know the answers) the year of first publication, the number of pages in the first edition, how often the word 'exclusive' is used in each book and finally the inside leg measurement of the author.
[SIZE=14pt]1. Miss Jane Marple was sitting by her window. [/SIZE]
2. Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again.
3. Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.
4. Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth
5. Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow,
6. Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Sommersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage;
7. It was love at first sight.
8. I am Myra Breckinridge whom no man will ever possess.
9. If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me thought Moses Herzog.
10. An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay -- Lyme Bay being that largest byte from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern leg
11. Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.
12. James Bond, wth two double bourbons inside him, sat back in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.
13. Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.
14. The Time Traveler (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.
15. No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
16. What can you say about a 25 year old girl who died?
17. Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.
18. You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.
19. All children, except one, grow up.
20. Most motorcars are conglomerations (this is a long word for bundles) of steel and wire and rubber and plastic, and electricity and oil and gasoline and water, and the toffee papers you pushed down the crack in the back seat last Sunday.
21. The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it.
22. He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf stream and he had gone 84 days now without taking a fish.
23. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
24. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
25. On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor.
26. 1801-- I have just returned from a visit to my landlord -- the solitary neighbor that I shall be troubled with.
27. As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into a giant insect.
28. "Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes."
Just a few :lol: :- " - please try not to google - some are worth a guess even if you don't recognise the passage.
)[/SIZE][SIZE=14pt]All I need is the title and the author and [/SIZE] (if you want - but I don't know the answers) the year of first publication, the number of pages in the first edition, how often the word 'exclusive' is used in each book and finally the inside leg measurement of the author.
[SIZE=14pt]1. Miss Jane Marple was sitting by her window. [/SIZE]
2. Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again.
3. Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.
4. Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth
5. Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow,
6. Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Sommersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage;
7. It was love at first sight.
8. I am Myra Breckinridge whom no man will ever possess.
9. If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me thought Moses Herzog.
10. An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay -- Lyme Bay being that largest byte from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern leg
11. Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.
12. James Bond, wth two double bourbons inside him, sat back in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.
13. Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.
14. The Time Traveler (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.
15. No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
16. What can you say about a 25 year old girl who died?
17. Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.
18. You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.
19. All children, except one, grow up.
20. Most motorcars are conglomerations (this is a long word for bundles) of steel and wire and rubber and plastic, and electricity and oil and gasoline and water, and the toffee papers you pushed down the crack in the back seat last Sunday.
21. The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it.
22. He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf stream and he had gone 84 days now without taking a fish.
23. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
24. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
25. On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor.
26. 1801-- I have just returned from a visit to my landlord -- the solitary neighbor that I shall be troubled with.
27. As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into a giant insect.
28. "Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes."
Just a few :lol: :- " - please try not to google - some are worth a guess even if you don't recognise the passage.
