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Great books start with great beginnings! See how many of these famous first lines you recognize as Tidbits presents these classics.

• English novelist Charles Dickens opened his 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities with the line “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.” One of the best-selling novels of all time, it is the story of French Dr. Alexandre Manette, who was falsely imprisoned in Paris’ Bastille for 18 years before and during the French Revolution. Manette was arrested as he attempted to expose the brutality of the aristocratic Evremonde brothers.

• You’ve undoubtedly heard the line “It was a dark and stormy night” numerous times. Perhaps you’ve thought it was written by Charles Schulz’s cartoon character Snoopy, as he typed away on his typewriter atop his dog house. It was actually the first line in an 1830 novel, Paul Clifford, written by English novelist and politician Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton.

It’s the story of a man leading a double life as a thief and an upscale gentleman who has no idea that he is the son of the judge who eventually sentences him to death. The famous phrase is also the first line of the famous 1962 Newbery Award-winning novel by Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time.

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FAMOUS FIRST LINES (cont.)

• What book begins with “Call me Ishmael”? It’s the classic novel Moby-Dick, penned by American writer Herman Melville in 1851. Ishmael narrates the story of the fanatical quest of Captain Ahab to kill the giant white sperm whale that had bitten off Ahab’s leg at the knee on the ship Pequod’s previous voyage. Ishmael is the only one who can document the voyage, as he is the sole survivor of the wreck of the Pequod. MobyDick was not a popular book at the time, selling only 3,715 copies during Melville’s lifetime, with earnings of just $556 (about $250,000 in today’s dollars). Although he had written previous popular novels, Melville’s popularity plummeted after Moby-Dick, and he became a customs inspector.

Interest was revived after his death in 1891, even though the novel had been out of print for 15 years. Moby-Dick was reprinted and became the classic we know today. It was adapted to film in 1956, starring Gregory Peck as Ahab. According to “How Long to Read This,” the novel will take the average reader about 8 hours to read.

• Gregory Peck won an Academy Award for his role as widowed lawyer Atticus Finch in the 1962 drama film To Kill a Mockingbird, based on Harper Lee’s 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The story of racial injustice in Alabama during the Great Depression is told through the eyes of six-year-old Scout Finch, and is loosely based on actual events in Harper Lee’s childhood. Lee opened the book with, “When he was nearly 13, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.” ...continued

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FAMOUS FIRST LINES (cont.)

• “All children, except one, grow up.” Who was that one child? It’s Peter Pan, of course, a character created by Scottish author J.M. Barrie in the early 20th century. Peter was first seen in Barrie’s 1902 novel The Little White Bird as a seven-dayold baby who flew from his nursery to London’s Kensington Gardens. The novel was developed into a successful play in 1904, followed by another play “Peter Pan, the Boy who Wouldn’t Grow Up.” The novel Peter and Wendy wasn’t published until 1911. It’s believed that Barrie based Peter’s character on his older brother, David, who died in an ice-skating accident one day before his 14th birthday. To his family, he was forever a boy.

How old was Peter Pan? The 1911 novel stated that he “still had all his baby teeth,” which would make him much younger than the approximately 12-year-old boy we are familiar with. In 1929, Barrie gifted the copyright and royalty rights for Peter Pan to the Great Ormon Street Hospital, a London children’s hospital. Barrie passed away in 1937, but those rights continue to generate a considerable income to the hospital.

• “Where’s Papa going with that ax?” That was the question asked by Fern Arable in the 1952 children’s novel Charlotte’s Web. Fern soon learned what happens to the runt of a litter of piglets, but her father relented and allowed her to keep the pig, whom she promptly named Wilbur and began feeding from a bottle. The New York Times’ review in 1952 called the book “just about perfect.”

Seven years earlier, the author E.B. White had released his first children’s book, Stuart Little, about a mouse-like human boy which began, “When Mrs. Frederick C. Little’s second son arrived, everybody noticed that he was not much bigger than a mouse.” ...continued

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FAMOUS FIRST LINES (cont.)

• “Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy.” And so begins The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the 1950 fantasy novel by British writer and theologian C.S. Lewis, the first in a series of seven books known as “The Chronicles of Narnia.” Forced to leave London during the bombings of World War II, the children are taken in by a professor in the English countryside. When Lucy hides in a wardrobe during a game of hide-and-seek, she discovers the magical world of Narnia. Her three siblings later accompany her and encounter wolves, talking animals, an evil white witch, and a powerful lion named Aslan. Lewis began work on the sequel Prince Caspian almost immediately after completing the first, completing it less than a year after The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

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• The 1938 classic Gothic novel Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier begins with, “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” The narrator is speaking of the English estate of Mr. and Mrs. deWinter, where widower Maxim deWinter brings his new bride after a whirlwind courtship of less than a month. The narrator is the new Mrs. deWinter who lives in the shadow of Maxim’s glamorous first wife, Rebecca. The unfriendly and domineering housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, had been Rebecca’s family’s maid since Rebecca was a small child, and is fanatical about preserving the memory of her dead mistress. The novel has been in print continuously since 1938 and has been adapted into numerous films and television productions.

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• The origin of the phrase "in the limelight" comes from the early days of theater, when spotlights were produced by directing a flame at calcium oxide, or quicklime.

• In 1922, Americans consumed around 1,000,000 Eskimo Pies a day, which not only hiked up the cost of cocoa beans by 50%, but also single-handedly lifted Ecuador's economy out of a depression.

• According to the market research firm Euromonitor International, worldwide chewing gum sales have declined by 15% since 2007, the same year that the iPhone came out. The firm attributed the decrease to consumers distracted by their phones in checkout lines, where most gum purchases are made.

• Ichiro Suzuki, baseball's all-time hits leader, learned Spanish solely for the purpose of trashtalking opponents.

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• The first recorded observation of Halley’s Comet was in 239 B.C., documented by Chinese astronomers. Some studies indicate that the comet may have been observed as early as 466 B.C. by the ancient Greeks.

• English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, and physicist Edmond Halley published his first paper in 1676 at age 20, a publication with the rather elaborate title of “A Direct and Geometrical Method of Finding the Aphelia, Eccentricities, and Proportions of the Primary Planets, without Supposing Equality in Angular Motion,” a dissertation about planetary orbits. Halley studied laws of gravity and calculated orbital elements of comets and planets before releasing his 1705 “Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets,” in which he cited his belief that comets that had appeared in 1456, 1531, 1607, and 1682 were all the same comet, which returned approximately every 76 years.

• Edmond Halley estimated the next appearance of the comet to be the year 1758, which did in fact occur that year on Christmas Day. Unfortunately, Halley had died in 1742 and failed to see his prediction come true.

In 1759, the year after the comet’s appearance, it was named after Halley. Its official designation is 1P/Halley.

• The small rocky nucleus of Halley, which contains 99% of the comet’s mass, is just 9.94 miles across, but its tail, made of up gas and dust, can be up to 62,137 miles long.

• The first photograph of Halley’s Comet was taken during 1910, when it flew within 13.9 million miles of Earth.

• Author Mark Twain was born two weeks after the comet reached its point closest to the Sun in 1835.

In his 1909 autobiography, Twain wrote, “I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, I expect to go out with it…The Almighty has said, “…they came in together, they must go out together.” Twain died on April 21, 1910, just one day after Halley’s Comet appeared.

• So how is Halley’s Comet pronounced? Some say it rhymes with “valley,” while others claim it rhymes with “daily.” Edmond Halley’s biographer, Colin Ronan, prefers to rhyme it with “crawly.” There were several variations in the spelling of his name during his lifetime, including Haley, Hailey, Halley, Hawley, and Hawly. The most common pronunciation rhymes with “valley.”

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• Use baking soda to scrub away stuck-on food on your grill. Sprinkle it on the metal brush, and scrub away.

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• When you get near the end of a roll of paper towels, save it to put in your car. Put together a kit with the following items: a small bottle of Windex or other cleaner, a squeeze bottle of water, some wet wipes and the short roll of paper towels. Now you’ll always be ready for a quick on-theroad cleanup.

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• On May 30, 1593, playwright Christopher Marlowe, 29, is killed in a brawl. He was nearly denied his master's degree in 1587, until advisers to Queen Elizabeth intervened, referring to his services for the state. Historians later documented Marlowe's activities as a spy for the queen.

• On June 2, 1865, Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi, signs surrender terms offered by Union negotiators. The event is regarded as marking the end of the Civil War. • On June 4, 1896, Henry Ford unveils the "Quadricycle." The 500-pound vehicle had two driving speeds, no reverse, no brakes, rudimentary steering ability and a doorbell button as a horn. It could reach about 20 mph.

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• On May 31, 1929, Ford Motor Company signs an agreement to produce cars in the Soviet Union. In return, the USSR agreed to buy 72,000 unassembled Ford cars and trucks and all spare parts required over the following nine years.

• On June 5, 1933, the United States goes off the gold standard, in which currency is backed by gold. All gold coins, gold bullion and gold certificates were to be turned over to the Federal Reserve for the set price of $20.67 per ounce.

• On June 1, 1942, a Polish underground newspaper makes public the news of the gassing of tens of thousands of Jews at Chelmno, a Nazi-operated death camp, as told by a young Jew, Emanuel Ringelblum, who escaped after being forced to bury bodies at the camp.

• On June 3, 1956, in Santa Cruz, California, city authorities announced a total ban on rock and roll at public gatherings, calling the music "detrimental to both the health and morals of our youth and community." Similar bans were enacted in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and in San Antonio, Texas, where the city council was fearful of "undesirable elements."

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• The 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe is thought to be the first novel written in the English language.

Author Daniels Defoe’s name did not appear on the title page of the book’s first edition, leading readers to believe that Crusoe was a real person who was a castaway on a remote island for 28 years. The book begins, “I was born in the year 1632, in the City of York, of a good family,” stating later that Crusoe’s birth name was Robinson Kreutznaer. Defoe was a prolific writer, writing upwards of 300 works on a variety of topics, including religion, marriage, politics, crime, and the supernatural.

• Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 masterpiece War and Peace was originally entitled War, What Is It Good For? With more than 1,400 pages, the book, which chronicles the French invasion of Russia, has 587,287 words. The average reader, reading about 300 words per minute, could complete the book by reading non-stop for 1 day, 6 hours, and 26 minutes. The opening line of this classic is “Well, my prince, Genoa and Lucca are now no more than possessions, estates, of the Buonaparte family.”

• Another Tolstoy classic Anna Karenina, is the story of the Russian socialite Anna and her relationship with Russian aristocrat Count Vronsky.

The 800+-page novel was published in 1878, and opens with, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

• The Princess Bride is a 1973 fantasy romance by William Goldman. It’s the story of the beautiful farm girl Buttercup during the Renaissance who agrees to marry Prince Humperdinck following the loss of her love, the farmhand Westley. The opening line reads, “This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.” ...continued

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• Before The Hundred and One Dalmatians there was I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith’s first novel, published in 1949. (Dalmatians didn’t come along until 1956.) The family of the main character, 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, resides in a decaying castle during the 1930s, living in “genteel poverty” as their former fortune spiraled downward. “I write this sitting in the kitchen sink,” writes Cassandra, and goes on to relate the story of her eccentric family.

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• The first sentence of George Orwell’s science fiction novel, 1984 is, “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

It was Orwell’s ninth and final book, published in 1949, telling the story of a country controlled by an overbearing totalitarian government that manipulates every facet of society. Orwell coined the now popular term “Big Brother,” referring to the government’s mass surveillance of citizens. He also introduced the word “doublethink,” which refers to “the act of simultaneously aaccepting two mutually-contradictory beliefs as correct.”

• Ernest Hemingway started his last major work of fiction with, “He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. The Old Man and the Sea, published in 1952, was the story of a Cuban fisherman named Santiago and his struggle with a giant marlin. Hemingway was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for the work.

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