Lourdes
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: June 1994
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9789997521934
Subjects: Fiction
First sentence: THE pilgrims and patients, closely packed on the hard seats of the third-class carriage, were just finishing the ' Ave maris Stella,' which they had begun to chant on leaving the terminus of the Orleans line, when Marie, slightly raised on her couch of misery and restless with feverish impatience, caught sight of the Paris fortifications through the window of the moving train.