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What is your favorite opening to a gothic novel? - Lord stumbleforth - 12-10-2011
IT was winter-that is,about the second week in November-and great gusts were
Rattling at the windows,and wailing and thundering among our tall trees and
Ivied chimneys-a very dark night...
From Uncle silas
RE: What is your favorite opening to a gothic novel? - Charybdis - 12-12-2011
We could turn this into a game: someone quotes an opening line and the others need to guess from which gothic it is. Then the person who knew or correctly guessed may place the next "question". If it turns out too difficult, hints may be given later on.
Fun?
I'd never have guessed yours, BTW, even though I've read the book recently.
Let me start with an easy one:
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
RE: What is your favorite opening to a gothic novel? - The Ming - 12-12-2011
(12-12-2011, 08:49 AM)Charybdis Wrote: Let me start with an easy one:
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
Too easy, it's Rebecca-and one of my favourite openings to a novel.
Another easy one
"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day."
RE: What is your favorite opening to a gothic novel? - Charybdis - 12-12-2011
Well, I suppose it's good to have the easiest ones out of the way first.
Jane Eyre!
While trying to find a next one and checking them through Google, I'm realizing that often the first page is quoted on Amazon and other such sites, which will make it harder to find difficult ones. Therefore, the next one comes from my small to-be-read pile:
It was a great, dark stretch of unknown water we reached by nightfall and I glanced out of the coach window, searching in vain for the fabled floating city of Venice.
RE: What is your favorite opening to a gothic novel? - The Ming - 12-13-2011
(12-12-2011, 09:01 PM)Charybdis Wrote: Well, I suppose it's good to have the easiest ones out of the way first.
Jane Eyre!
While trying to find a next one and checking them through Google, I'm realizing that often the first page is quoted on Amazon and other such sites, which will make it harder to find difficult ones. Therefore, the next one comes from my small to-be-read pile:
It was a great, dark stretch of unknown water we reached by nightfall and I glanced out of the coach window, searching in vain for the fabled floating city of Venice.
Too hard for me, any hints?????
RE: What is your favorite opening to a gothic novel? - Charybdis - 12-13-2011
Ummm..., it's one of a series.
RE: What is your favorite opening to a gothic novel? - The Ming - 12-13-2011
It's not by Balzac is it?
RE: What is your favorite opening to a gothic novel? - Charybdis - 12-13-2011
Nope.
Hint 2: The book has been published under two different titles.
RE: What is your favorite opening to a gothic novel? - Lord stumbleforth - 01-15-2012
"It never occurred to me until much later that a person might be enjoying life
to its very utmost, while unknown to him the forces of destruction are waiting
Patiently for their turn to move into the game."
The Curse of Mallory Hall by Dorothy Daniels