Monday, June 13, 2011

"Call me Ishmael"

According to the 100 Best First Lines of Novels as chosen by the editors of American Book Review, the best first line of a novel is "Call me Ishmael" from the book "Moby-Dick". American author Herman Melville's whaling adventure dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne was first published in 1851.
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