Детектив Проза

Год выпуска

1800

ISBN

9781374884359

Авторы

George Eliot , John O'Connor , Mary Anne Evans

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Описание

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.