Welcome to Art & Literature Quiz #7. These are the opening lines to which famous books?

1. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”

2. “Call me Ishmael.”

3. “Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”

4. “It was a pleasure to burn.”

5. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

6. “Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun.”

7. “I’d never given much thought to how I would die — though I’d had reason enough in the last few months — but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this.”

8. “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.”

9. “When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.”

10. “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”