Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge

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

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like..

Mr and Mrs Dursley of number four Privet Drive were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

As Gregory Samsara awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect

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

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs...

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, tho not of that country

Someone must have slandered Jose K, for one fine morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested

Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents grumbled Jo, lying the rug.

This is the saddest story I have ever heard.

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.