Some innovative grammar nerds of the best kind made Reed-Kellogg diagrams of English literature's 25 most famous opening lines.
The end result is just gorgeous.
1.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
2.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
4.
Virginia Woolf, Orlando
5.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
6.
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
7.
Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis
8.
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
10.
Vladmir Nabokov, Lolita
11.
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
12.
David Markson, Wittgenstein's Mistress
14.
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
15.
Toni Morrison, Beloved
16.
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
17.
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
18.
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
20.
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
21.
Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
22.
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
24.
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
25.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five