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Great First Lines
Great First Lines
Edited by Celina Spiegel and Peter Kupfer.
An O'Reilly Media Best iPhone App: Best App for Literary Trivia
For book lovers, literary trivia fans, and know-it-alls everywhere, GREAT FIRST LINES is an irresistible collection of literature's great opening sentences, cleverly arranged so that each line builds upon the one before it to create a unique story. Answer links and indexes arranged by author and title are included--but no peeking!
Perfect for browsing by yourself or quizzing your friends, GREAT FIRST LINES spans the world of fiction from Balzac to Bradbury; Hurston to Hemingway; Tolstoy to Thackeray; Colette to Capote; García Márquez to Miller; Rushdie to Rilke, and many more.
Download your copy now and let the literary games begin!
"Makes for an amusing parlor game." --The New York Times
"It’s a game, a book, and a compact exploration of great writing all rolled into one tidy app." -Best iPhone Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders by Josh Clark
FEATURES:
- elegant typography and page design
- realistic page turn animation
- choose between regular and large text
- create bookmarks of your favorite quotations
- also includes title and author indexes
What's new
minor memory leak fixed
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- Last changed:
- Sep 09, 2009
- Category:
- Books
- Developer:
- Moulinarn Mobile Books
- Version:
- 1.0.4
- Average Rating:
- 4.00 (13)
- Size:
- 1.9 MB
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