Famous Lines from Famous Books

First Line: It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
This line is from the novel 1984, which was published in 1949 by the author George Orwell who lived from 1903 to 1950. This Author is also known for other works including Animal Farm and Burmese Days.
Summary:
1984 is possibly the definitive dystopian novel, set in a world beyond our imagining. A world where totalitarianism really is total, all power split into three roughly equal groups - Eastasia, Eurasia and Oceania. 1984 is set in Oceania, which includes the United Kingdon, where the story is set, known as Airstrip One in 1984.

Last Line: After a while, I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.
This line is from the novel A Farewell to Arms, which was published in the year 1929 by the author Ernest Hemingway who lived from 1899 to 1961. This author is also known for other works, including The Sun also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea.
Summary:
The novel opens with World War I raging all over Europe. A young American student, offers his services to the Italian army. In Gorizia, he is wounded in the knee and is sent to recuperate in a hospital in Milan. He falls in love with an English nurse, Catherine Barkley, lives with her, and she becomes pregnant. He returns to the front and is caught in the Italian retreat. In order to save his life, he deserts his post and goes away to a hospital in Milan to take Catherine and go some place where they can start life anew. They go to Switzerland but cannot live happily, for a fresh tragedy awaits them. Their eagerly awaited son is stillborn and Catherine who can never have a normal delivery, dies after a Caesarian operation.