First Impressions

This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel filmed by Stanley Kubrick:

"Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it"

The winner receives a £25 Blackwell's voucher and the closing date is December 17.

Entries, including postal address, should be sent to

First Impressions
The THES
Admiral House, 66-68 East Smithfield
London E1W 1BX

faxed to 020 7782 3300
or emailed to theschat@thes.co.uk

Last week's winner, who identified John Braine's Room at the Top , was Peter Taylor-Gooby of the University of Kent.

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