The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 19
... silence of the fields , untouched by a single sound apart from the distant hoot of the departing train , enveloped me . I stood for a while under the old elms on the platform and sniffed the long - forgotten smell of tar coming from ...
... silence of the fields , untouched by a single sound apart from the distant hoot of the departing train , enveloped me . I stood for a while under the old elms on the platform and sniffed the long - forgotten smell of tar coming from ...
Page 20
... silence . Occasionally it was broken by the hum of a bumble - bee . It flew round the rooms as if it were the landlord . After buzzing and bustling to its heart's content it would fly with relief out of an open window into the heat and ...
... silence . Occasionally it was broken by the hum of a bumble - bee . It flew round the rooms as if it were the landlord . After buzzing and bustling to its heart's content it would fly with relief out of an open window into the heat and ...
Page 53
... Silence reigned supreme over the city . Even locomotives on distant railway lines no longer hooted as was their wont . The country was advancing towards the raised bier in which , among the flowers and crimson flags , the haggard face ...
... Silence reigned supreme over the city . Even locomotives on distant railway lines no longer hooted as was their wont . The country was advancing towards the raised bier in which , among the flowers and crimson flags , the haggard face ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
Copyright | |
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