| 1) 'A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: 'Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!' |
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How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Terry McMillan
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
Hotel World, Ali Smith
The Sign of Four, Arthur Conan Doyle
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| 2) 'I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up...' |
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The Quiet American, Graham Greene
The Dean's December, Saul Bellow
The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
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| 3) 'Punctually at six o'clock the sun set with a last yellow flash behind the Blue Mountains, a wave of violet shadow poured down Richmond Road, and the crickets and tree frogs in the fine gardens began to zing and tinkle.' |
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Dr. No, Ian Fleming
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
How Green Was My Valley, Richard Llewellyn
Watership Down, Richard Adams
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| 4) 'Every time they got a call from the leper hospital to pick up a body Jack Delaney would feel himself coming down with the flu or something.' |
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The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
Bandits, Elmore Leonard
Unnatural Causes, P.D. James
Rabbit, Run, John Updike
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| 5) 'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.' |
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The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
Seize the Day, Saul Bellow
The Subterraneans, Jack Kerouac
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| 6) 'My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons.' |
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Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
Maurice, E.M. Forster
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| 7) 'The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.' |
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Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Lady Chatterley's Lover, D.H. Lawrence
The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope
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| 8) 'Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.' |
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Washington Square, Henry James
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
Middlemarch, George Eliot
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| 9) 'April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.' |
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Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Pain in Pleasure, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot
The Tower, William Butler Yeats
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| 10) 'A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or since.' |
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Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
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