FAMOUS FIRST LINES

The Answers :

1.] The Prologue to "The Canterbury Tales", by Geoffrey Chaucer, circa 1387.

2.] Song from "Songs and Sonets", by John Donne, circa 1593 - 1601.

3.] "The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", by William Shakespeare, circa 1593.

4.] "To His Coy Mistress", by Andrew Marvell, 1649.

5.] "The Diary" of Samuel Pepys, 1659/60.

6.] "An Essay on Criticism", by Alexander Pope, 1711.

7.] "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman", by Laurence Sterne, 1767.

8.] "The School for Scandal", by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1777.

9.] "Pride and Prejudice", by Jane Austen, 1813.

10.] "The Importance of Being Earnest", by Oscar Wilde, 1895.

11.] "The Wasteland", by T. S. Eliot, 1922.

12.] "Midnight's Children", by Salman Rushdie, 1981.

Complaints, corrections, queries, and suggestions responded to by Mike Grant.

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