First Lines: Robert Louis Stevenson - Kidnapped

I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house.

First Line: Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Mr Utterson, the lawyer, was a man with a severe expression that was never brightened by a smile.
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First Lines: Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island

Squire Trelawney, Dr Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen have asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17-, and go back to the time when my father kept Admiral Benbow Inn, and the brown old seaman, with the sabre-cut, first took up his lodging under our roof.