Poste Restante, Vol. 1 of 3
A Novel (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Poste Restante, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel<br><br>One - two - three - four! With a resonant boom the big bronze giants on the clock tower hammered out the flight of time: then the echoes died away, and the clatter of feet and the noisy hum of voices rose again in the Piazza San Marco. The afternoon siesta was over, and Venice had awakened. In the grand square, where the heart of the city beats, all was life, - lazy, languid life, if you like; for it is there in the piazza where Italian, French, Greek, German, English nationalities meet in one common whole, and discuss their caff, or ices, or aniseed water with cosmopolitan friendliness.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.