Silas Marner (Bantam Classics)
Publisher: Bantam Classics; Roundhouse Group
Published: September 1, 1981
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780553212297
Subjects: Classic fiction; Literature: Texts; Literature: Classics; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Classics; Fiction / Classics
First sentence: IN the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses-and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy spinning-wheels of polished oak-there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain pallid undersized men, who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.