Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes.
Try this one :-
(Another translated book, so exact phrasing may vary depending on the translation … )
(Oh, and yes, I know the Bird and Bantling 
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Steve, you are correct.
Steve Wright’s is War and Peace
Three Men in a Boat: The funniest opening couple of pages ever.
By the way, I still have three open from page 2:
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to afternoon tea.
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Thirty years ago, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day.
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When she was home from boarding-school I used to see her almost every day sometimes, because their house was right opposite the Town Hall Annexe.
The one about Billy Pilgrim being unstuck in time: that’s gotta be Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut…or did someone else already answer that and I didn’t see it?
Betcha nobody gets this one:
“At the start, there wasn’t a thing.”
Here is an uber easy one: