The Wanderer (The World's Classics)
Contributors: Margaret Anne Doody (Editor, Introduction); Robert L. Mack (Editor); Peter Sabor (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: June 6, 1991
Language: eng
Number of pages: 963
ISBN-13: 9780192821331
First sentence: During the dire reign of the terrific Robespierre, and in the dead of night, braving the cold, the darkness and the damps of December, some English passengers, in a small vessel, were preparing to glide silently from the coast of France, when a voice of keen distress resounded from the shore, imploring, in the French language, pity and admission.