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Son of "It was a dark and stormy night" : more of the best (?) from the Bulwer-Lytton Contest / compiled by Scott Rice.
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New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1986.
1986
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Il Linguaggio degli inizi : letteratura cinema folklore / a cura di G.P. Caprettini e R. Eugeni.
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Torino : Il Segnalibro, 1988.
1988
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Contexts for Hawthorne : The marble faun and the politics of openness and closure in American literature / Milton R. Stern.
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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1991.
1991
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Transitions savantes et dissimulées : une étude structurelle des contes et nouvelles de Guy de Maupassant / Tuula Lehman.
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Helsinki : Societas Scientiarum Fennica, c1990.
1990
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Le prime parole : l'uso dell'incipit nella narrativa dell'Italia unità / Aldo Nemesio.
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Alessandria : Edizioni dell'Orso, c1990.
1990
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First paragraphs : inspired openings for writers and readers / Donald Newlove.
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New York : St. Martin's Press, 1992.
1992
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In the beginning : great first lines from your favorite books / collected by Hans Bauer.
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San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c1991.
1991
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Beginnings in classical literature / edited for the Department of Classics by Francis M. Dunn and Thomas Cole.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
1992
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Openings : narrative beginnings from the epic to the novel / A.D. Nuttall.
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Oxford, [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
1992
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Great beginnings : opening lines of great novels / [compiled by] Georgianne Ensign.
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New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, c1993.
1993
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Incipit : 757 inizi facili e meno facili : un libro di quiz e di lettura / Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini ; disegni di Donatella Caprara.
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Milano : A. Mondadori, 1993.
1993
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Era una notte buia e tempestosa -- : 1430 modi di iniziare un romanzo / Giacomo Papi, Federica Presutto; [introduzione di Umberto Eco].
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Milano : Baldini & Castoldi, c1993.
1993
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Parables of possibility : the American need for beginnings / Terence Martin.
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New York : Columbia University Press, c1995.
1995
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Novel openers : first sentences of 11,000 fictional works, topically arranged with subject, keyword, author, and title indexing / by Bruce L. Weaver.
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Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1995.
1995
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Robert Browning's rondures brave / Michael Bright.
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Athens : Ohio University Press, c1996.
1996
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Fahren Sie fort! : 49 Romananfänge / Reinhold Aumaier.
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Wien : Edition Atelier, c1995.
1995
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Great beginnings and endings : opening and closing lines of great novels / [compiled by] Georgianne Ensign.
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New York : HarperPerennial, c1996.
1996
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First-line index of English poetry, 1500-1800, in manuscripts of the Bodleian Library, Oxford; edited by Margaret Crum.
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Oxford, Clarendon P., 1969.
1969
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Inizi : (ri)-cominciare, incipit e mito delle origini / a cura di Clara Bartocci, Marina Gradoli.
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Napoli : Edizioni scientifiche italiane, c1996.
1996
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Gli inizi difficili : per una poetica dell'incipit romanzesco / Andrea Del Lungo.
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Padova : Unipress, c1997.
1997
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Guide to the first line indexes of manuscript poetry in the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Huntington Library.
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Marlborough, Wiltshire, England : Adam Matthew Publications, 1998.
1998
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Paratext und Textanfang / Annette Retsch.
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Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 2000.
2000
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Reading fiction : opening the text / Peter Childs.
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.
2001
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The book of the incipit : beginnings in the fourteenth century / D. Vance Smith.
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Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c2001.
2001
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A bibliographical catalogue and first-line index of printed anthologies of English poetry to 1640 / Frederic William Baue.
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Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2002.
2002
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Shakespearean entrances / Mariko Ichikawa.
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
2002
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Know these lines : the Henry W. & Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American literature.
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[New York] : New York Public Library, 1987.
1987
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| FormatText | Call numberBerg Coll Berg Exhibitions K66 1987 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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Prologues to Shakespeare's theatre : performance and liminality in early modern drama / Douglas Bruster and Robert Weimann.
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London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
2004
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First-line index of English poetry, 1500-1800, in manuscripts of the James M. and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University / edited by many hands under the direction of Stephen Parks, curator ; continued by Marc Greitens ; completed by Carolyn W. Nelson.
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New Haven, Conn. : Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, c2005.
2005
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Le soglie del film : inizio e fine nel cinema / Micaela Veronesi.
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Torino : Kaplan, c2005.
2005
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Incipit : anthologie des premières phrases / Pierre Simonet ; préface de Patrick Poivre d'Arvor.
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Nantes, Racine : Temps, c2008.
2008
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Le début et la fin du récit : une relation critique / essais critiques sous la direction d'Andrea Del Lungo ; accompagné d'entretiens inédits avec Christine Montalbetti, Jean Rouau / d et Jean-Philippe Toussaint.
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Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2010.
2010
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Cronache dal big-bang : l'unica gioia al mondo è cominciare / a cura di Fabio Pierangeli e Lidia Sirianni ; conversazioni a cura di Paolo Di Paolo con Raffaele La Capria ... [et al.].
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Matelica (MC) [i.e. Macerata, Italy] : Hacca, c2011.
2011
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L'inizio e la fine : i confini del romanzo nel canone occidentale / Giuliana Adamo.
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Ravenna : Longo, c2013.
2013
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Future-founding poetry : topographies of beginnings from Whitman to the twenty-first century / Sascha Pöhlmann.
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Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2015.
2015-2015
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L'énigme des premières phrases / Laurent Nunez.
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Paris : Bernard Grasset, [2017]
2017
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The book of the incipit [electronic resource] : beginnings in the fourteenth century / D. Vance Smith.
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Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c2001.
2001
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View all available online resourcesComme on fait son lead, on écrit [electronic resource] / Antoine Char ; préface de Michel Roy.
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Sainte-Foy [Que.] : Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2002.
2002
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View all available online resourcesAnfänge und Enden : narrative Potentiale des antiken und nachantiken Epos / herausgegeben von Christine Schmitz, Jan Telg gennant Kortmann, Angela Jöne.
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Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2017]
2017-2017
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In the beginning : first novels in mystery series / edited by Mary Jean DeMarr.
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Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1995.
1995
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Inceptions [electronic resource] Literary Beginnings and Contingencies of Form / Kevin Ohi.
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New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.
2021
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View all available online resourcesEpistularum Graecarum Initia usque ad annum MD / conscripsit Michael Grünbart.
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Hildesheim : Olms-Weidmann, 2020.
2020
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Prime pagine : piccola antologia di incipit letterari italiani / Andrea Di Berardino.
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Milano : Mimesis, [2023]
2023
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Contexts for Hawthorne : The marble faun and the politics of openness and closure in American literature / Milton R. Stern.
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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1991], ©1991.
1991-1991
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| FormatText | Call numberPS1862 .S74 1991 | Item locationOff-site |
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Bidāyat al-naṣṣ al-riwāʼī : muqārabah li-ālīyāt tashakkul al-dalālah / Aḥmad al-ʻAdwānī.
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Al-Dār al-Bayḍāʼ ; Bayrūt : Al-Markaz al-Thaqāfī al-ʻArabī : Al-Nādī al-Adabī bi-al-Riyāḍ, 2011.
2011
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| FormatText | Call numberPJ7577 .A379 2011g | Item locationOff-site |
Openings : narrative beginnings from the epic to the novel / A.D. Nuttall.
Text
Oxford, [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
1992
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| FormatText | Call numberPN212 .N88 1992 | Item locationOff-site |
Chŏn Wŏn-ch'aek ŭi kwŏllyŏk ŭi mollak / chiŭni Chŏn Wŏn-ch'aek.
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Sŏul T'ŭkpyŏlsi : Purae, 2017.
2017
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| FormatText | Call numberDS923.25 .C4788 2017 | Item locationOff-site |
Der erste Satz : östereichische Romananfänge, 1960-1980 / Andreas Wolkerstorfer.
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Wien : WUV Universitätsverlag, [1994], ©1994.
1994-1994
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| FormatText | Call numberPT3836.F5 W65 1994g | Item locationOff-site |
Parables of possibility : the American need for beginnings / Terence Martin.
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New York : Columbia University Press, [1995], ©1995.
1995-1995
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| FormatText | Call numberPS25 .M37 1995 | Item locationOff-site |
Barāʻat al-istihlāl fī al-shiʻr al-Nabaṭī al-Imārātī : dirāsah fannīyah / ʻĀʼishah al-Ghayṣ.
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[Abū Ẓaby] : al-Ẓaby lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ, 2022.
2022
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| FormatText | Call numberPJ8006.2 .G43 2022g | Item locationOff-site |
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