Silas Marner
Contributors: R. Adelaide Witham (Editor)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: May 4, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781417931484
Subjects: Classic fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction; Literature: Classics; Classics
First sentence: IN the days when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses - and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy spinning wheels of polished oak - there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain pallid, undersized men, who, by the side of the brawny country folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.