The Poison of Asps, and Other Stories
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: July 4, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9781402168062
Subjects: poison of asps,stories,novel,Florence Marryat Church Lean; Fiction / General; Fiction / Graphic Novels
First sentence: IT was an inclement evening in September-dark, damp, and dispiriting; and the red lamps of the eight-o'clock down-train from London were scarcely discernible through the fog, as the engine, snorting like an overdriven animal, rushed into the country station of Fairmead, and drew up its line of carriages beside the paved uncovered platform, which glistened with the fast descending rain.