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Page 14
The square in front of St Vladimir's Cathedral had long spring grass growing
between the cobblestones. The day was drawing in. The lights of the setting sun,
reflected in innumerable window panes, was flooding the street. 'Kostik,' asked ...
The square in front of St Vladimir's Cathedral had long spring grass growing
between the cobblestones. The day was drawing in. The lights of the setting sun,
reflected in innumerable window panes, was flooding the street. 'Kostik,' asked ...
Page 58
In front of me the river Klyazma sent up clouds of steam just as fiercely as
Pushkino billowed forth its smoke, and covered the whole landscape. The forest
crackled under the frost, like smouldering logs, and the snow flakes like so many
flat ...
In front of me the river Klyazma sent up clouds of steam just as fiercely as
Pushkino billowed forth its smoke, and covered the whole landscape. The forest
crackled under the frost, like smouldering logs, and the snow flakes like so many
flat ...
Page 201
I knelt down in front of the window, stuck out an unbelievably thin, transparent
arm and with the whole thin, bird-like skin of that arm I felt the splendour of the
night - its cool wind rhythmically blowing through the lime trees and reaching us,
...
I knelt down in front of the window, stuck out an unbelievably thin, transparent
arm and with the whole thin, bird-like skin of that arm I felt the splendour of the
night - its cool wind rhythmically blowing through the lime trees and reaching us,
...
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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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