Story of a Life, Volume 6 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 55
Page 69
So great, therefore, was my excitement as we approached Leningrad that I simply
went deaf, did not hear the questions addressed to me and, in fact, looked as one
possessed. The city appeared like a vision created out of crepuscular air.
So great, therefore, was my excitement as we approached Leningrad that I simply
went deaf, did not hear the questions addressed to me and, in fact, looked as one
possessed. The city appeared like a vision created out of crepuscular air.
Page 114
I looked closely at the photograph and was struck dumb. In the extraordinary
clarity of the atmosphere, straight out of the desert's clayey soil with small, dry
stones scattered all over it, rose up a sheer black wall two to three hundred
metres high ...
I looked closely at the photograph and was struck dumb. In the extraordinary
clarity of the atmosphere, straight out of the desert's clayey soil with small, dry
stones scattered all over it, rose up a sheer black wall two to three hundred
metres high ...
Page 128
... broken life and her children's sad future - remembered how she burst into tears
when she looked at my father's bowed back, as he went off to leave her for ever.
His back looked so helpless that Mother could not but 128 The Restless Years.
... broken life and her children's sad future - remembered how she burst into tears
when she looked at my father's bowed back, as he went off to leave her for ever.
His back looked so helpless that Mother could not but 128 The Restless Years.
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 |