Dido and Pa
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: October 28, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780618196234
First sentence: Dusk was closing in over the South Downs on a fine, bitterly cold, windless evening in late November, a hundred years ago, when the driver of a carriage and pair left his horses tied to a gate on the main Chichester-to-London road, vaulted over the gate, crossed a wide, sloping pasture, walked up a chalk track where the wheel ruts showed white in the hazy twilight, and passed through a grove of beech trees.