Felix Holt, the Radical (Oxford World's Classics) (Oxford World's Classics)
Contributors: Fred C. Thomson (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: November 19, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780192838216
First sentence: FIVE-AND-THIRTY years ago the glory had not yet departed from the old coach-roads : the great roadside inns were still brilliant with well-polished tankards, the smiling glances of pretty barmaids, and the repartees of jocose ostlers; the mail still announced itself by the merry notes of the horn; the hedge-cutter or the rick-thatcher might still know the exact hour by the unfailing yet otherwise meteoric apparition of the pea-green Tally-ho or the yellow Independent; and elderly gentlemen in pony-chaises, quartering nervously to make way for the rolling swinging swiftness, had not ceased to remark that times were finely changed since they used to see the pack-horses and hear the tinkling of their bells on this very highway.