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Page 244
The sky seemed filled with smoke. Enormous black puffs moved behind it, like
petrified cotton. These were the storm clouds seen through the smoke. Dead
silence stood all around us. The frogs and the birds grew silent, fish stopped
splashing.
The sky seemed filled with smoke. Enormous black puffs moved behind it, like
petrified cotton. These were the storm clouds seen through the smoke. Dead
silence stood all around us. The frogs and the birds grew silent, fish stopped
splashing.
Page 312
They took turns climbing into the ambulance to have a smoke protected from the
rain. The soldiers waited their turn without complaining, then climbed into the
ambulance, rolled a cigarette out of cheap makhorka tobacco and damp
newspaper ...
They took turns climbing into the ambulance to have a smoke protected from the
rain. The soldiers waited their turn without complaining, then climbed into the
ambulance, rolled a cigarette out of cheap makhorka tobacco and damp
newspaper ...
Page 358
Black columns of smoke stood against the horizon. The orderlies said this was
burning grain. A Cossack patrol galloped through the little village. They rode up
to the square in front of the synagogue, went into two or three houses, and then ...
Black columns of smoke stood against the horizon. The orderlies said this was
burning grain. A Cossack patrol galloped through the little village. They rode up
to the square in front of the synagogue, went into two or three houses, and then ...
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Contents
The Death of My Father | 3 |
My Grandfather Maxim Grigorievich | 10 |
Carp | 16 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Story of a Life, Volume 1 The Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Константин Паустовский |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
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