Young Lives
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: April 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781417909575
Subjects: Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Literature: Classics; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Essays
First sentence: BEHIND the Venetian blinds of a respectable middle-class, fifty-pound-a-year, "semi-de-tached," "family" house, in a respectable middle-class road of the little north-county town of Sidon, midway between the trees of wealth upon the hill, and the business quarters that ended in squalor on the bank of the broad and busy river, - a house boasting a few shabby trees of its own, in its damp little rockeried slips of front and back gardens, - on a May evening some ten or twelve years ago, a momentous crisis of contrasts had been reached.