Statistics for Famous First Lines of Novels #2

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First Line	Novel	% Correct
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do…	Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland	97%
Scarlet O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.	Gone With The Wind	83%
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.	Little Women	81%
Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.	The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe	78%
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect	Metamorphosis	74%
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.	To Kill A Mockingbird	74%
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.	Great Expectations	68%
James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.	Goldfinger	51%
Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.	The Trial	44%
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.	The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	31%