Here are the openings of excellent novels. Many of them are already classics. Why might they have an impact on a reader. Do they grab your attention? Why?
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 incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was a season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859) |