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Page 70
When the train entered it, the sound of the wheels would become much louder
and the echoes would bounce back, just as if cheerful blacksmiths had begun to
wield their hammers all through the forest. I was seeing central Russia for the first
...
When the train entered it, the sound of the wheels would become much louder
and the echoes would bounce back, just as if cheerful blacksmiths had begun to
wield their hammers all through the forest. I was seeing central Russia for the first
...
Page 151
The train started. My father stood there, holding his hat, watching the racing
wheels of the train. He didn't want to come back to Uncle Kolya's house, saying
he had to catch the first train back to Bezhitsa where an urgent job was waiting for
him.
The train started. My father stood there, holding his hat, watching the racing
wheels of the train. He didn't want to come back to Uncle Kolya's house, saying
he had to catch the first train back to Bezhitsa where an urgent job was waiting for
him.
Page 316
The windows rattled in the train. The train stopped at last in a wide glen. Yellow
clouds of shrapnel fire blazed up continually in the leafy woods around the edges
of the glen. Mounted soldiers were galloping past the train. A field battery hidden
...
The windows rattled in the train. The train stopped at last in a wide glen. Yellow
clouds of shrapnel fire blazed up continually in the leafy woods around the edges
of the glen. Mounted soldiers were galloping past the train. A field battery hidden
...
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Contents
The Death of My Father | 3 |
Carp | 16 |
The Pink Oleanders | 29 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Story of a Life, Volume 2 |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Publisher | Vintage Books, 1967 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 23 Nov 2009 |
| Length | 661 pages |
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