You'll find the initial paragraphs of some of the most important novels in history. These books are famous, loved, read
and re-read, and are still exciting to this day. Each book reveals a personality, in the same way that each setting by
Sprint reveals a character and style all its own. And you, what novel are you?
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Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation.
From "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville
From "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville
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The primroses were over. Toward the edge of the wood, where the ground became open and sloped down to an old fence and a brambly ditch beyond, only a few fading patches of pale yellow still showed among the dog's mercury and oak-tree roots.
From "Watership Down" by Richard Adams
From "Watership Down" by Richard Adams
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In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne. He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of Digne since 1806. Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him…
From "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo
From "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo
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A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard. Surprised - it always surprised him to find himself awake without prior notice - he rose from the bed, stood up in his multicolored pajamas, and stretched.
From "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" by Philip Kindred Dick
From "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" by Philip Kindred Dick
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Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal...
From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
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I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up (...).
With the coming of Dean Moriartry began the part of my life you could call my life on the road.
From "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac
With the coming of Dean Moriartry began the part of my life you could call my life on the road.
From "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac
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It was a lovely night, one of those nights, dear reader, which can only happen when you are young. The sky was so bright and starry that when you looked at it the first question that came into your mind was whether it was really possible that all sorts of bad-tempered and unstable people could live under such a glorious sky.
From "White Nights" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
From "White Nights" by Fyodor Dostoevsky