#WordWeek: Favourite First Lines

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It’s a truism of course, but a book shouldn’t grab you with its gaudy cover, or the hyperbolic praise of a Daily Mail critic emblazoned on the cover. It should capture you from the first line, when you plummet down the rabbit hole into a world furnished in the imagination of another. In the best examples, these lines become almost works in themselves, poetic recitations to demonstrate your allegiance to your favourit...