Wessex Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
Contributors: Kathryn R. King (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: September 23, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780192835581
First sentence: AMONG the few features of agricultural England which retain an appearance but little modified by the lapse of centuries may be reckoned the long, grassy and furzy downs, coombs, or ewe-leases, as they are called according to their kind, that fill a large area of certain counties in the south and south-west.