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Page 27
The fire gradually died down, but pungent, rainbow-coloured clouds of smoke
rose from the ruins for days on end. Our metal roof buckled and the window
frames smoked, but luckily did not catch. We coughed and our eyes watered from
the ...
The fire gradually died down, but pungent, rainbow-coloured clouds of smoke
rose from the ruins for days on end. Our metal roof buckled and the window
frames smoked, but luckily did not catch. We coughed and our eyes watered from
the ...
Page 34
The air smelled of the smoke of burning houses. Their glow was fading. Only in
the direction of Kiev Station was the sky still a dull crimson. Then, from the north,
from the side of Khodynka, came the whining of a shell. It crossed Moscow and ...
The air smelled of the smoke of burning houses. Their glow was fading. Only in
the direction of Kiev Station was the sky still a dull crimson. Then, from the north,
from the side of Khodynka, came the whining of a shell. It crossed Moscow and ...
Page 59
The clouds of cigarette smoke swayed. Before I could see anything in the dim
light and the smoky air, I heard someone say in an unusually calm, high voice,
rolling his r's: 'Let me through, Comrades.' The men at the back shoved to get a
better ...
The clouds of cigarette smoke swayed. Before I could see anything in the dim
light and the smoky air, I heard someone say in an unusually calm, high voice,
rolling his r's: 'Let me through, Comrades.' The men at the back shoved to get a
better ...
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Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Cafe | 36 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of The Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
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