Editing First Line, First Pages (section)

==Abstract==
* This article discusses the importance of the first line, first page rule in a novel to capture the attention of the reader.  She illustrates the use of this talent by several authors such as Dickens, du Maurier and Austen and how these first lines became immediate identifiers of the work.  The article describes how effectively Dorothy Dunnett used her opening lines in the Lymond series.  However, the first line is not always the most memorable, and there is the last line of ''Gone with the Wind''; but for Dunnett readers it is the last line of CM: ''We have reached the open sea, with some charts; and the firmament.''