The Three Cities Trilogy
Subtitle: Lourdes
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9781419185199
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; Fiction - General; Fiction; Literary
First sentence: THE pilgrims and patients, closely packed on the hard seats of a 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.