Hope you enjoyed that, and well done ramblingfancy, who more or less got the right answer - Return of the Native is the odd one out, for reasons which will become clear when you see the books' opening lines...
'Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote' - The Canterbury Tales
'A Saturday afternoon in November[...]' - The Return of the Native
'April is the cruellest month' - The Waste Land
'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen' - Ninety Eighty-Four
Thanks for all your ingenious guesses!
Oh wow it was that, and I did actually *know* they were first lines. Thanks for sharing the question Simon!
ReplyDeleteGoodness; I had no idea!
ReplyDeleteSo "obvious!" ;)
ReplyDeleteFun question, though!
Ugh, that is obvious XD I think I need to read a few more books to get these questions in the future.
ReplyDeleteYes, perhaps 'obvious' wasn't the right word - I meant it's an obvious thing to look for, rather than it's something we all know off by heart!
ReplyDeleteI missed your quiz! I will be looking out for more as I love book related trivia!
ReplyDeleteWell, I was totally off! I was going with the "there's 'the' in the title," but such was not the case.
ReplyDeleteThat was fun, though!