Opening Lines from Famous Novels

Can you name the novels whose first lines are:

1. Call me Ishmael.

2. I Am an invisible man.

3. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

4. Mother died today. Or maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure.

5. It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.

6. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

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

8. As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

Answers:

1. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 

2. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 

3. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 

4. The Outsider by Albert Camus 

5. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 

6. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

7. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 

8. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka