Anna of the Five Towns
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
Published: April 27, 2009
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
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.