Good literature is enough to influence the world for hundreds of years, or even longer, and great writers often write extraordinary, and a wonderful opening has already introduced readers to the world they have created.
Let's enjoy the opening of these literary giants and write a tall and full score essay!
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Happy families are always similar, while unhappy families have their own misfortunes.
all happy families are happy alike, all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way.
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
This is the best of times, this is the worst of times; this is the year of wisdom, this is the age of ignorance; this is the time of faith, this is the time of doubt; this is the season of light, this is the season of darkness; this is the spring of hope, this is the winter of disappointment. Our future has everything, our future has nothing; we are going to heaven and we are going to hell.
it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity. it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness. it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
It has become a universally recognized truth that all rich bachelors always want to marry a wife.
it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possessing of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
In April, the weather was cold and sunny, and the bell rang thirteen times.
it was a bright cold day in april, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
Lolita, the light of my life, the fire of my desires. My sin, my soul, Lo-Li-Ta: the tip of the tongue goes up, in three steps, from the upper jaw down to the teeth. Lo. beautiful. tower.
lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. my sin, my soul. lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate of tap, at three, on the teeth. lo. lee. ta.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
J•D. Salinger, "Catcher of the Rye"
Sylvia Plath,"Bell Hood"
It was a weird, sweltering summer, the summer Rosenberg was executed on espionage charges, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
it was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the rosenberg, and i didn’t know what i was doing in new york.
Mark Twain,The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
l•p. Hartley, "A Love Affair"
The past is like a foreign land: they do different things there.
the past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis
One morning, Gregor Samsa awoke from an uneasy sleep and found himself lying in bed transformed into a giant beetle.
as gregor samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
Samuel Beckett, "Murphy"
The sun rose as usual and nothing changed.
the sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
Joseph Heller, "The 22nd Military Track"
It was a real love at first sight. When they first met, Yogilian fell in love with the military priest fanatically.
it was love at first sight. the first time yossarian saw the chaplain she fell madly in love with him.
George Eliot's Middlemark
Miss Brooke's posture, set off by plain clothes, is particularly moving.
miss brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
James Matthew Barry in Peter Pan
All the children grow up, with one exception.
all children, except one, grow up.
Henry James, Portrait of a Lady
In some cases, there are few more enjoyable things in life than spending time on a ritual called afternoon tea.
under certain circumstance there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Christopher Isherwood, "Goodbye, Berlin"
I am a passive camera, with the shutter open, only recording without thinking.
i am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.
Charlotte Brontë,"Jane Eyre"
That day, it was impossible to go out for a walk.
there was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
Sinclair Lewis, "Elmer Gantley"
Elmer Gantley was drunk, drunk and talking nonsense, and arguing with people at every turn.
elmer gantry was drunk. he was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk.
John F. Kennedy Tours, "The League of Dumbers"
A green hunting hat stuck in the bulging head.
a green hunting cap squeezed the top of a fleshy balloon of a head.
Stephen Klein, Red Medal of Valor
The cold retreated hesitantly from the earth, and as the mist gradually cleared, an army could be seen sleeping scattered on the hillside.
the cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.
Ian Banks, "The Raven Highway"
My grandmother got angry that day.
it was the day my grandmother exploded.
Thomas Hardy, "Nameless Jude"
The elementary school teacher was about to leave the village, and everyone seemed a little sad.
the schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry.
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
He was an old man fishing alone in a small boat in the Gulf Stream, and it had been 84 days since he had caught a single fish.
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.
Kurt Vonnegut in The Fifth Slaughterhouse
Everything in the story, more or less, happened.
all this happened, more or less.
Jane Reese, "The Sea of Algae"
They say that when trouble ensues, white people do the same.
they say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.