The Story of a Life: In that dawn |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 23
Page 45
At the stations , windows were smashed , fences and sometimes even railway -
workers ' huts pulled down for timber to stoke ... The station staff scattered long
before a train full of demobbed men shook the rails and burst into the stations to
the ...
At the stations , windows were smashed , fences and sometimes even railway -
workers ' huts pulled down for timber to stoke ... The station staff scattered long
before a train full of demobbed men shook the rails and burst into the stations to
the ...
Page 93
Whenever we spent the summer holidays anywhere near a railway , I would slink
off for days on end to the station where , together with the station guard in his red
cap , I met every train and saw it off . To this day , everything to do with railways ...
Whenever we spent the summer holidays anywhere near a railway , I would slink
off for days on end to the station where , together with the station guard in his red
cap , I met every train and saw it off . To this day , everything to do with railways ...
Page 94
Outside the station , the tracks curved in a horseshoe arc and vanished in a
pinewood . Always unexpectedly , the train burst out of the woods , snaking and
bending outwards round the curve . I felt I had never seen anything more
beautiful in ...
Outside the station , the tracks curved in a horseshoe arc and vanished in a
pinewood . Always unexpectedly , the train burst out of the woods , snaking and
bending outwards round the curve . I felt I had never seen anything more
beautiful in ...
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
The Hall with the Fountain | 58 |
Copyright | |
16 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Antoshchenko arms army asked began believe broken bullet called Commander course crowd danger dark don't door empty everything eyes face felt fire floor flowers followed front garden gave German girl give Government grey guard hall hand happened head heard journalists keep Kiev knew later leave light listen lived looked Mama Mensheviks mind morning Moscow moved never night notice once past pulled quiet regiment round running Russia seemed seen short shot shouted showed side silence sitting smell smiled smoke soldiers soon sound Soviet station steps stood stopped street suddenly talk tell things thought told took town train trees trying turned Ukrainian voice waiting walked wall whole wind window woman women woods write yard young
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, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 661 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |