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Welcome to ItOpens.

This site is dedicated to openings, in particular the opening words (first lines) of books, the opening lines of poems and (coming soon) songs, plays and films. The books included so far are mainly (but not exclusively) novels in the English language. Poems are mainly in modern English. There is no particular criteria for the inclusion or exclusion of a particular book or poem and to date, no book or poem has been excluded.

The site is updated on an almost daily basis with more books and poems, so if you can't find the book or poem that you are looking for, keep on checking back here. Don't forget to bookmark this page.

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Data last updated: 2010-04-14 19:08:00
Site last updated: 22/2/2005
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Openings: Copyright of the respective authors acknowledged.

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