F9. Last line: what it leaves in the mind. Both

Openings and endings. One line per book. Open a book for the full answer, charts and cited lines.

Book	Genre	Result
Treasure Island	Thriller and adventure	The last full paragraph runs to 80 words.
The Thirty-Nine Steps	Thriller and adventure	The last full paragraph runs to 46 words.
The Prisoner of Zenda	Thriller and adventure	The last full paragraph runs to 136 words.
Around the World in Eighty Days	Thriller and adventure	The last full paragraph runs to 14 words.
King Solomon's Mines	Thriller and adventure	The last full paragraph runs to 62 words.
The Hound of the Baskervilles	Crime and mystery	The last full paragraph runs to 222 words.
A Study in Scarlet	Crime and mystery	The last full paragraph runs to 14 words.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	Crime and mystery	The last full paragraph runs to 149 words.
The Moonstone	Crime and mystery	The last full paragraph runs to 30 words.
The Woman in White	Crime and mystery	The last full paragraph runs to 40 words.
Pride and Prejudice	Romance	The last full paragraph runs to 11 words.
Persuasion	Romance	The last full paragraph runs to 169 words.
Emma	Romance	The last full paragraph runs to 94 words.
Jane Eyre	Romance	The last full paragraph runs to 28 words.
Dracula	Gothic and horror	The last full paragraph runs to 11 words.
Frankenstein	Gothic and horror	The last full paragraph runs to 34 words.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Gothic and horror	The last full paragraph runs to 279 words.
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Gothic and horror	The last full paragraph runs to 71 words.
Wuthering Heights	Gothic and horror	The last full paragraph runs to 43 words.
The Turn of the Screw	Gothic and horror	The last full paragraph runs to 103 words.
The Time Machine	Science fiction	The last full paragraph runs to 286 words.
The War of the Worlds	Science fiction	The last full paragraph runs to 29 words.
The Invisible Man	Science fiction	The last full paragraph runs to 54 words.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Fantasy and children's	The last full paragraph runs to 101 words.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	Fantasy and children's	The last full paragraph runs to 25 words.
The Secret Garden	Fantasy and children's	The last full paragraph runs to 48 words.
The Wind in the Willows	Fantasy and children's	The last full paragraph runs to 162 words.
Great Expectations	Literary	The last full paragraph runs to 58 words.
A Christmas Carol	Literary	The last full paragraph runs to 60 words.
The Great Gatsby	Literary	The last full paragraph runs to 14 words.
Heart of Darkness	Literary	The last full paragraph runs to 74 words.
Kidnapped	Thriller and adventure	The last full paragraph runs to 19 words.
The Count of Monte Cristo	Thriller and adventure	The last full paragraph runs to 9 words.
The Three Musketeers	Thriller and adventure	The last full paragraph runs to 112 words.
The Riddle of the Sands	Thriller and adventure	The last full paragraph runs to 64 words.
The Scarlet Pimpernel	Thriller and adventure	The last full paragraph runs to 36 words.
The Lost World	Thriller and adventure	The last full paragraph runs to 16 words.
Captain Blood	Thriller and adventure	The last full paragraph runs to 24 words.
Lady Audley's Secret	Crime and mystery	The last full paragraph runs to 83 words.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue	Crime and mystery	The last full paragraph runs to 142 words.
The Innocence of Father Brown	Crime and mystery	The last full paragraph runs to 20 words.
The Big Bow Mystery	Crime and mystery	The last full paragraph runs to 723 words.
The Leavenworth Case	Crime and mystery	The last full paragraph runs to 54 words.
The Red Thumb Mark	Crime and mystery	The last full paragraph runs to 26 words.
The Amateur Cracksman	Crime and mystery	The last full paragraph runs to 159 words.
The Secret Agent	Crime and mystery	The last full paragraph runs to 78 words.
Sense and Sensibility	Romance	The last full paragraph runs to 60 words.
North and South	Romance	The last full paragraph runs to 19 words.
Far from the Madding Crowd	Romance	The last full paragraph runs to 13 words.
The Enchanted April	Romance	The last full paragraph runs to 188 words.
The Sheik	Romance	The last full paragraph runs to 52 words.
Daddy Long Legs	Romance	The last full paragraph runs to 17 words.
Carmilla	Gothic and horror	The last full paragraph runs to 119 words.
The Castle of Otranto	Gothic and horror	The last full paragraph runs to 116 words.
The Phantom of the Opera	Gothic and horror	The last full paragraph runs to 42 words.
The Great God Pan	Gothic and horror	The last full paragraph runs to 32 words.
The Yellow Wallpaper	Gothic and horror	The last full paragraph runs to 28 words.
The Call of Cthulhu	Gothic and horror	The last full paragraph runs to 152 words.
The Island of Doctor Moreau	Science fiction	The last full paragraph runs to 54 words.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth	Science fiction	The last full paragraph runs to 30 words.
A Princess of Mars	Science fiction	The last full paragraph runs to 18 words.
Herland	Science fiction	The last full paragraph runs to 11 words.
Flatland	Science fiction	The last full paragraph runs to 26 words.
Erewhon	Science fiction	The last full paragraph runs to 132 words.
The Last Man	Science fiction	The last full paragraph runs to 206 words.
Through the Looking Glass	Fantasy and children's	The last full paragraph runs to 17 words.
A Little Princess	Fantasy and children's	The last full paragraph runs to 44 words.
The Jungle Book	Fantasy and children's	The last full paragraph runs to 89 words.
Five Children and It	Fantasy and children's	The last full paragraph runs to 39 words.
The Railway Children	Fantasy and children's	The last full paragraph runs to 89 words.
The Princess and the Goblin	Fantasy and children's	The last full paragraph runs to 16 words.
Peter and Wendy	Fantasy and children's	The last full paragraph runs to 99 words.
The Worm Ouroboros	Fantasy and children's	The last full paragraph runs to 34 words.
Anne of Green Gables	Fantasy and children's	The last full paragraph runs to 12 words.
Black Beauty	Fantasy and children's	The last full paragraph runs to 73 words.
Middlemarch	Literary	The last full paragraph runs to 98 words.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles	Literary	The last full paragraph runs to 72 words.
Mrs Dalloway	Literary	The last full paragraph runs to 8 words.
To the Lighthouse	Literary	The last full paragraph runs to 121 words.
Anna Karenina	Literary	The last full paragraph runs to 125 words.
Crime and Punishment	Literary	The last full paragraph runs to 55 words.
Madame Bovary	Literary	The last full paragraph runs to 11 words.
The Age of Innocence	Literary	The last full paragraph runs to 113 words.
Silas Marner	Literary	The last full paragraph runs to 19 words.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Literary	The last full paragraph runs to 103 words.
Hamlet	Plays	The last full paragraph runs to 14 words.
Macbeth	Plays	The last full paragraph runs to 134 words.
Romeo and Juliet	Plays	The last full paragraph runs to 50 words.
Othello	Plays	The last full paragraph runs to 86 words.
A Midsummer Night's Dream	Plays	The last full paragraph runs to 96 words.
Twelfth Night	Plays	The last full paragraph runs to 31 words.
Doctor Faustus	Plays	The last full paragraph runs to 11 words.
The Importance of Being Earnest	Plays	The last full paragraph runs to 22 words.
A Doll's House	Plays	The last full paragraph runs to 10 words.
Hedda Gabler	Plays	The last full paragraph runs to 14 words.
Pygmalion	Plays	The last full paragraph runs to 415 words.
The School for Scandal	Plays	The last full paragraph runs to 16 words.

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