From Booking Through Thursday:
What are your favourite final sentences from books? Is there a book that you
liked specially because of its last sentence? Or a book, perhaps that you
didn’t like but still remember simply because of the last line?
I've always had a fondness for the closing lines of Around the World in 80 Days. The narrator has just finished telling us that, although Phileas Fogg won his bet, he was left with none of his winnings. What did he gain from his around the world travels?
Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as
it may appear, made him the happiest of men!
Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?
3 comments:
Interesting. I have never read it. So many classic I have miss out on or have to read.
That's one I've never read.
It's a fun, short read. It was a childhood favorite of mine.
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