Story of a Life, Volume 6 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 31
Page 52
Cold A black, tar-laden smoke, slightly coloured by the purple flame rose up in
billows over the bonfires. The bonfire smoke and the January cold hung like a
low pall over Moscow. Trams, bells ringing, ground their slow way through the
smoke ...
Cold A black, tar-laden smoke, slightly coloured by the purple flame rose up in
billows over the bonfires. The bonfire smoke and the January cold hung like a
low pall over Moscow. Trams, bells ringing, ground their slow way through the
smoke ...
Page 53
That move was like a geological shift which had shaken Russia to her
foundations. The breath produced by thousands of men rose and spread like
steam through the ice- cold Hall of Pillars. From time to time the smooth strains of
orchestral ...
That move was like a geological shift which had shaken Russia to her
foundations. The breath produced by thousands of men rose and spread like
steam through the ice- cold Hall of Pillars. From time to time the smooth strains of
orchestral ...
Page 59
The mighty whistle spread far and wide - out into the cold, over the forests and
over the fields where the snows lay in one thick blanket. A minute passed, then
two. The engine went on screeching just as plaintively, just as mournfully and ...
The mighty whistle spread far and wide - out into the cold, over the forests and
over the fields where the snows lay in one thick blanket. A minute passed, then
two. The engine went on screeching just as plaintively, just as mournfully and ...
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
The Last Meeting | 13 |
3 The Fourth Strip | 29 |
4 Night Trains | 40 |
Copyright | |
13 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Aigues-Mortes asked Astrakhan Babel Bagritsky Bagritsky's banks Berezniki birds Black Sea boys breath Bulgakov Caspian Sea cigarettes Colchis cold colour course dark deserted Devonian dust Elista everything eyes face Father Peter felt flowers forests Gaidar Galya garden girls grey Gudok hand happened Hecht hundred roubles Ivanov Kalmyk Kalmyk steppes Kara-Bugaz Kiev knew Konotop Kostik Krasnovodsk Lake Onega light liman literary little town lived Livny looked Lusha Maleyevka Mayakovsky Meshchery Moscow Mother never night Nodia novelist Odessa Palace of Labour passengers Petrozavodsk poems poet poetry Poti Pushkino quiet rain river Roskin round Russian Ryazan seemed short story silence sitting smell smoke snow Solikamsk Soviet Stalin steamer steppes suddenly Tarusa Taya things thought tiny took train trees turned Vaso village voice walls warm window words writer wrote young Zuzenko
Bibliographic information
| Title | Story of a Life, Volume 6 Story of a Life, Story of a Life |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Translated by | Manya Harari |
| Publisher | Harvill Press, 1974 |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |