Story of a Life: In that dawn |
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Page 94
This was the non-stop goods train. Outside the station, the tracks curved in a
horseshoe arc and vanished in a pinewood. Always unexpectedly, the train burst
out of the woods, snaking and bending outwards round the curve. I felt I had
never ...
This was the non-stop goods train. Outside the station, the tracks curved in a
horseshoe arc and vanished in a pinewood. Always unexpectedly, the train burst
out of the woods, snaking and bending outwards round the curve. I felt I had
never ...
Page 185
The owner would open fire with a sawn-off shotgun. Then, the engine driver
started the train without a warning whistle, Khvat yelled, 'To Horse!' and we ran
after our coach and leapt in. After Belaya Tserkov, the train came more and more
often ...
The owner would open fire with a sawn-off shotgun. Then, the engine driver
started the train without a warning whistle, Khvat yelled, 'To Horse!' and we ran
after our coach and leapt in. After Belaya Tserkov, the train came more and more
often ...
Page 194
'If only he'd go through quickly! Are you from the passenger train?' I said yes and
smiled — a hell of a passenger train it was, our collection of dirty, broken-down
wagons leaning this way and that. 'Then go back and tell them to lock themselves
...
'If only he'd go through quickly! Are you from the passenger train?' I said yes and
smiled — a hell of a passenger train it was, our collection of dirty, broken-down
wagons leaning this way and that. 'Then go back and tell them to lock themselves
...
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Contents
Whirlpool pagej 2 Blue Torches | 23 |
3 The Journalists Cafe | 56 |
4 The Hall with the Fountain | 58 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Translated by | Manya Harari |
| Publisher | Harvill Press, 1967 |
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