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Page 102
A black sheet, indicating mourning, was stretched across the Avenue. The words '
The body of a great national poet is lying here at rest' were written on the sheet in
white letters. The day was dark, with low motionless clouds, sullenly silent.
A black sheet, indicating mourning, was stretched across the Avenue. The words '
The body of a great national poet is lying here at rest' were written on the sheet in
white letters. The day was dark, with low motionless clouds, sullenly silent.
Page 169
There, into the dark stretched out ancient Biarmia - country of gloom and raw
wealth - mineral and coniferous - of hard men who battled against nature, of bold
and dissolute couriers of the Tsar, of seekers of gold who rolled out carpets in
front ...
There, into the dark stretched out ancient Biarmia - country of gloom and raw
wealth - mineral and coniferous - of hard men who battled against nature, of bold
and dissolute couriers of the Tsar, of seekers of gold who rolled out carpets in
front ...
Page 205
The water flows out of geological strata, ancient and dark - as dark as their age -
out of Jurassic clays and Devonian sandstone. One fact in connection with the
Vertushinka seems especially attractive, but somehow difficult to grasp. We have
...
The water flows out of geological strata, ancient and dark - as dark as their age -
out of Jurassic clays and Devonian sandstone. One fact in connection with the
Vertushinka seems especially attractive, but somehow difficult to grasp. We have
...
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Contents
The Last Meeting | 13 |
3 The Fourth Strip | 29 |
4 Night Trains | 40 |
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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 |
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