Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Das Auto des Schicksals
Für wen es gedacht ist
Readers who love road trips, old motorcars, secret identities and a love story with a dash of danger, and anyone curious about the towns, food and festivals of Spain in the early twentieth century.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
The Car of Destiny is a romantic adventure by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson, a husband and wife who wrote many travel novels together. It sends a young man across Spain in a red motorcar in the early days of motoring, when roads were rough and a drive from the French border to Seville was a daring trip. The story is told in the first person by the hero himself, so you share every hope and every fright.
The hero is Ramón Cristóbal, Marqués de Casa Triana, the son of a banished Carlist general. He is forbidden to enter Spain, yet he falls in love at first sight with an English girl, Lady Monica Vale, whom he glimpses in a car near Biarritz. Her mother wants her to marry the rich and ruthless Duke of Carmona, and the Duke is about to carry the girl south by car. Ramón follows in disguise, with an American friend and a faithful chauffeur.
You get a love story, a long chase, and a tour of Spanish towns, from Burgos and Madrid to Toledo, Córdoba and Seville. You also get Spanish customs, food, bells, processions and mountain passes, seen through the eyes of a man who has dreamed of his homeland since childhood. First, we begin in Biarritz, where one wish by the roadside changes a life.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A wish by the road at BiarritzFree
- 2A masked ball and a hard warning
- 3A new name and a trick at the border
- 4Burgos and the family who adopt him
- 5A trap in the Escorial
- 6Sabotage in Madrid and a gift from Toledo
- 7Dream-book luck on the road south
- 8Córdoba, Seville, and a cold look in the garden
- 9What the story is really about
- 10How the story is told
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A wish by the road at Biarritz
The story opens in Biarritz, where Ramón Cristóbal, Marqués de Casa Triana, has come by car from Paris with his American friend Dick Waring. Dick warns him that the young King of Spain is in town, visiting his English bride-to-be. A Casa Triana has good reason to stay away. Ramón's father was a Carlist general who fought for a rival claimant to the throne, and Ramón himself was jailed in Barcelona after a bomb was thrown on the day he arrived.
Ramón ignores the warning and takes an English name, Christopher Trevenna. He wants only a look at the King, so he follows the royal party's car along the Spanish road. He wishes that something would stop it, just as he once wished for apples to fall in an English orchard. The royal car stops, because its petrol tank has a leak, and Ramón offers a spare can.
Two fair girls lift their motor veils. One of them, to Ramón's mind, is as lovely as a saint in a window, and he falls in love in a single moment. He thinks she is the Princess, then learns from a shop photograph that she is not. She is Lady Monica Vale, daughter of the proud Lady Vale-Avon, and she is a friend of the Princess.
Ramón learns more from Dick's gossiping friends. Lady Vale-Avon is poor but ambitious, and she means her daughter to make a brilliant match. The man she has in mind is the Duke of Carmona, one of the richest nobles in Spain, whose family has been at odds with the Casa Trianas for generations. The two ladies are about to visit the Duke's mother in Seville.
Dick tells his friend plainly that his case is hopeless, and compares it to Romeo and Juliet. Ramón answers that Romeo won Juliet. He vows to cross any mountains between himself and the girl. So begins a plan to reach her at a masked ball.
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Questions about Das Auto des Schicksals
What is The Car of Destiny about?
It follows Ramón, a banished Spaniard, who drives across Spain in a motorcar to stay near an English girl, Monica Vale, while a powerful duke tries to marry her. It mixes a love story, a chase and a tour of Spanish towns.
Who is the Duke of Carmona in the book?
He is a rich Spanish grandee with a hot temper and Moorish ancestry, whose family has long been an enemy of the Casa Trianas. He wants Monica for her beauty and for the favor her friendship with the new queen can bring.
Why is Ramón not allowed in Spain?
His father was a Carlist general who fought against the royal line and was exiled. Ramón was then jailed in Barcelona when a bomb was thrown on the day he arrived, so he is warned never to return.
Is the book easy to follow?
Yes, in the sense that it moves town by town with a clear chase, a lively narrator and plenty of humor. Each chapter is a short stage of the journey, and the friendships keep the story warm.