Epigraph
Introduction
Fictional First Lines
Charlotte’s Web
Dracula
Ernest Hemingway
Emily Dickinson
John Steinbeck
Books in Hollywood
Gone with the Wind
George Orwell
Greek Tragedies
Poetic First Lines
Robert Frost
Pen Names
Franz Kafka
Agatha Christie
Moby-Dick
The Canterbury Tales
Books on Broadway
Tennessee Williams
Gabriel Garcia Márquez
Nobel Firsts
Charles Dickens
Dystopias
Edith Wharton
Fictional Places
Jack Kerouac
James Joyce
Jorge Luis Borges
Beowulf
The Pulitzer
More Fictional First Lines
Joseph Conrad
Kurt Vonnegut
Vladimir Nabokov
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Thousand and One Nights
Salman Rushdie
T. S. Eliot
Victor Hugo
Toni Morrison
Short Story First Lines
Villains
William Butter Yeats
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Langston Hughes
Nobel Prize Winners (and Losers)
The Literature of War
John Keats
The Brontë Sisters
More Poetic First Lines
Catchy Titles
Virginia Woolf
V. S. Naipaul
Zora Neale Hurston
Poetic Last Lines
Epitaphs
James Baldwin
Willa Cather
Jane Austen
First Novels
Working Titles
Robert Heinlein
Ayn Rand
Edgar Allan Poe
E. M. Forster
Don Quixote
Homer’s Odyssey
Oscar Wilde
Pablo Neruda
First Lines from Drama
Dante’s Divine Comedy
Leo Tolstoy
Paradise Lost
Albert Camus
Frankenstein
Gustave Flaubert
Jack London
Robert Louis Stevenson
Ursulaa K. Le Guin
Stephen King
Obscene Books
Banned Books
Leslie Marmon Silko
Arthur Miller
C. S. Lewis
H. G. Wells
Lewis Carroll
Chinua Achebe
Christmas Classics
Dostoyevsky
J. K. Rowling
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
To Kill a Mockingbird
Literary Hoaxes
Rudyard Kipling
Truman Capote
Famous Theater Lines
The Psalms
Children’s Classics
Mysteries
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Last Lines
Acknowledgments
Index of Quizzes
About the Authors
Other Books by Kenneth C. Davis
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher