In my study I have a great collection of books of fine literature and pop fiction alike. Looks like Posling the Poltergeist has broken into my study and pulled another one of his practical "jokes".
It appears that Posling has scrambled up all of the letters and characters in my books! Some are only mildly scrambled, and others are much worse.
Fortunately, the scramblings were only done sentence by sentence. Listed below are the opening sentences for various books.
Can you help me reconstruct each of the sentences and identify the books?
Book 1:
allC me Ismhae.l
Book 2:
I twsa abright cl odad iyAn prli, dnat ehclco swekre rtsiikg nthtrinee.
Book 3:
nIa hl oiheteng rodnu th erlieaevd o hbib.t
Book 4:
oyf u eIrlly a awtt nroahe atobiu t,thieft strh gyi' nuollbprlo ay bnatwoktn owis wrhe e I warnbso,ad wnatm oyh lu slcyihohd aosw dlike,a ndh mow ya epns rewtercc uoi pndeda abl lferoetyhha ed me a,danl tlht Davaid opCpreefdkli do irnf pact ,bud oIt' enfe k llie igiogn ntio i ,fty uownao tk o nwtehtr ut.th
Book 5:
Ma. rMn.rdr sus Delo,fnyburuf em,o rPirv eDev tri eweurr, poot sdhayt att h eye erwe pfetrcnyoarl m,kt lao vnheyu rum.y ch
Book 6:
ts Ip we aasa luoberut .nr
Book 7:
F raoiut n then uhcadrte bacwkrsaeto f tehnuf ahbosnailend fhoee t sew etrpsrln imaar oef th Gaaxlylsia em s alulngr erda dleyeswl uo.n
Book 8:
sa Iw tebto shefi ,m tiewtts tesah wsto ofrsteatmi wt ,isae heg fo iwsd ,omtws a egtifhef oo hlaosis i ,aewntetss e chpfo o l hbfe ieta ih,eewcts ophf indu rco iwyl atei,te sats hosenof ,Lgiiht tweaths sea s foo nasDnes rks,ahti wrstep iog noph ,wt ifashet tenw eor s idaf,rw e hpedeate irvyhi enegfbo ,su e ardtniwgohh enbrfews o,ee ur we iol rga gnldc taoeien t, veeHwreew aollg ignreidt eto ctwhe anhy r -i str,h thoeiepro w ssdf or alatie ekp htenersp ,redthoa osi oem t sft ioissieant uioiertthiess ntsd no isit ebnrigeic,dv eegf or ordooofrvei il t,n eh respuadliteo vegfer eorcmsa iloynopn.
Book 9:
fmaegpl,tactl ,Smpn rBuirc l uamltok obMhaw yn utarhieieet foa drhm ailrse nho lgaray.on or esoabrh crr a cldewzidaas
Clarifications:
- Each sentence is the first sentence of a book. The amount of each letter/character in each scrambled sentence is the same as in the original sentence (unless I made a mistake -- nevertheless, it should be close).
- Each book can be done as an independent puzzle. Try as many as you can -- even if you can only figure out one book, you are still encouraged to post an answer.
- Computer/programming aid might be helpful, but I think all of these are doable by a clever person
- Post the unscrambled sentence and the corresponding book title for each book you solve.