Posts in The Copybook tagged ‘First Lines’
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By Pierre-Antoine Demachy (1723–1807). Public domain.
Charles Dickens set his historical novel A Tale of Two Cities (1859) in the French Revolution seventy years before, but it was far from the dead past to him.
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By Eastman Johnson (1824-1906), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
John Bunyan’s ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ opens with Christian wondering how to convince his wife that their town and their family are in immediate danger.
© Mike Searle, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
From the very first lines, Jane Austen’s classic novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’ pokes affectionate fun at Georgian England.
© Pymouss, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
The simple folk of Brittany know what it means when a nobleman calls himself godfather to an unknown infant.
By George Romney (1734-1802), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Mr Easy believes he has missed out on fatherhood, and having nothing else to do, turns to political campaigning.