SINOPSIS DEL LIBRO

In a period of English history which graybeards call the good old timesthe fine old times that is to say when Parliament was horribly corrupt and the Poor Laws as barbarous as the Inquisition when it took fifteen hours to go from London to Dover and when at least one-half of the conveniences which we now very reasonably call the necessities of life had no existenceSouthbourne was a small straggling village and by reason of the quaint and primitiv...Seguir leyendo