Your Friday Afternoon Literature Challenge: Name the original opening line

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Very good, but I don't think you're right on number 3

I've never read The Little Prince, but according to this online version, it starts "Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest."

I think number three is The Hobbit: ""In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit".

The 'Something' is Pride and Prejudice. I can't name the Bulwer-Lytton either. Yes, you're right on Anna Karenina (I thought Tolstoy, or certainly Russian, but couldn't say what). I won't reveal the others yet (#5 ("This is a tale of a meeting of &quot and #11 ("You better not never tell...&quot only differ by one letter from their originals, which is pretty impressive of Fred; that gives a clue to #5, really - a science-fiction writer with a sense of humour).