Caesar or Nothing [Hardcover]

Pio Baroja (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0865272247 | ISBN-13: 978-0865272248 | Publication Date: November 1976

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I THE PARIS-VENTIMIGLIA EXPRESS MARSEILLESl THE fast Paris-Ventimiglia train, one of the Grand European Expresses, had stopped a moment at Marseilles. It was about seven in the morning of a winter day. The huge cars, with their bevelled-glass windows, dripped water from all parts; the locomotive puffed, resting from its run, and the bellows between car and car, like great accordeons, had black drops slipping down their corrugations. The rails shone; they crossed over one another, and fled into the distance until lost to sight. The train windows were shut; silence reigned in the station; from time to time there resounded a violent hammering on the axles; a curtain here or there was raised, and behind the misted glass the dishevelled head of a woman appeared. In the dining-car a waiter went about preparing the tables for breakfast; two or three gentlemen, wrapped in their ulsters, their caps pulled down, were seated at the tables by the windows and kept yawning. At one of the little tables at the end Laura and Caesar had installed themselves. " Did you sleep, sister? " he asked. "Yes. I did. Splendidly. And you?" " I didn't. I can't sleep on the train." " That's evident." " I look so bad, eh ? " and Caesar examined himself in one of the car mirrors. " I certainly am absurdly pale." " The weather is just as horrible as ever," she added. They had left a Paris frozen and dark. During the wholenight the cold had been most intense. One hadn't been able to put a head outside the car; snow and a furious wind had had their own violent way. " When we reach the Mediterranean, it will change," Laura had said. It had not; they were on the edge of the sea and the cold continued intense and the weather dark. HOW BEAUTIFULt The train began its ...

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Howard Fertig (November 1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0865272247
• ISBN-13: 978-0865272248
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,586,391 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)