Book & Author by famous incipit - Statistics

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Hint Author & Book Name % Correct
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.” Lolita
88%
“Call me Ishmael.” Moby-Dick
83%
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” The Hobbit
83%
“In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack…” Don Quixote
79%
Franz Kafka
79%
Franz Kafka
79%
Jane Austen
79%
J.R.R. Tolkien
79%
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” 1984
75%
Charles Dickens
75%
Charles Dickens
75%
Ernest Hemingway
75%
George Orwell
75%
Herman Melville
75%
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Pride and Prejudice
75%
“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.” The Old Man and the Sea
75%
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” A Tale of Two Cities
71%
Vladimir Nabokov
71%
Charlotte Brontë
67%
Emily Brontë
67%
“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” The Metamorphosis
67%
“It was a pleasure to burn.” Fahrenheit 451
63%
Miguel de Cervantes
63%
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Anna Karenina
58%
Leo Tolstoy
58%
“Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested.” The Trial
58%
“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” Jane Eyre
54%
Ray Bradbury
54%
“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.” The Grapes of Wrath
50%
“1801. I have just returned from a visit to my landlord – the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.” Wuthering Heights
50%
Gabriel García Márquez
46%
“I am an invisible man.” Invisible Man
46%
J.D. Salinger
46%
John Steinbeck
46%
“The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.” Lord of the Flies
46%
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born…” The Catcher in the Rye
46%
Albert Camus
38%
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.” David Copperfield
38%
“Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure.” The Stranger (L’Étranger)
38%
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” One Hundred Years of Solitude
38%
William Golding
38%
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” Rebecca
33%
“A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories.” Brave New World
29%
Daphne du Maurier
29%
Joseph Conrad
29%
Ralph Ellison
29%
Sylvia Plath
29%
“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs.” The Bell Jar
29%
James Joyce
25%
“All this happened, more or less.” Slaughterhouse-Five
25%
“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather…” Ulysses
25%
Aldous Huxley
21%
“It was love at first sight.” Catch-22
21%
“You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.” Frankenstein
21%
“The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.” Heart of Darkness
21%
Kurt Vonnegut
21%
Mary Shelley
21%
Joseph Heller
17%
William Faulkner
17%
“What’s it going to be then, eh?” A Clockwork Orange
13%
“Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.” The Sound and the Fury
13%
Anthony Burgess
8%
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