quiz - first lines of classic novels. how do you fare?

[hatwoman]

here

5/10 for me. pretty poor. but I think it's quite tough.

I got 5 , but then I did my English degree a looooooong time ago

i got 6/10 on first go and i have one o level hahah

I thought Call me Ishmael should have been in ther

Expat - agree with you re George Eliot. Got a few chapters into Middlemarch and was losing the will to live so had to stop.

Love Henry James though - he's a dude

bloody hell !!! only 2 correct and i've read a fair few of these books!!! oh the shame well i'll just have to face it. I'm thick with a capital T.

9/10
couple of guesses though

6/10... have read very few of them

4/10 and I thought I was well read...