Anna Of The Five Towns
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: April 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781417912247
Subjects: Historical fiction; Fiction - Historical; Fiction; Historical - General
First sentence: THE yard was all silent and empty under the burning afternoon heat, which had made its asphalt springy like turf, when suddenly the children threw themselves out of the great doors at either end of the Sunday-school-boys from the right, girls from the left-in two howling, impetuous streams, that widened, eddied, intermingled and formed backwaters until the whole quadrangle was full of clamour and movement.