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Page 61
'Quiet!' hissed our neighbour, a wispy soldier in a forage cap too big for him. '
Quiet, yourself,' the recruit snapped back, hurriedly undoing his faded tunic. 'Wait,
wait, I'll show you . . .' he muttered, fumbling inside his collar and finally pulling
out ...
'Quiet!' hissed our neighbour, a wispy soldier in a forage cap too big for him. '
Quiet, yourself,' the recruit snapped back, hurriedly undoing his faded tunic. 'Wait,
wait, I'll show you . . .' he muttered, fumbling inside his collar and finally pulling
out ...
Page 191
Black flags with white skulls and cross-bones fluttered over the quiet fields of
Nikolayevsk and Kherson. And the Middle Ages paled before the lust, violence,
and sudden, black unreason of the twentieth century. Where had it all stayed
hidden, ...
Black flags with white skulls and cross-bones fluttered over the quiet fields of
Nikolayevsk and Kherson. And the Middle Ages paled before the lust, violence,
and sudden, black unreason of the twentieth century. Where had it all stayed
hidden, ...
Page 201
Overlooking the sea in Chernomorskaya, a quiet little street in the suburb of
Langeron, stood Dr Landesman's private nursing home for nervous diseases.
The incidence of nervous disorders had risen sharply in those anxious, uncertain
times, ...
Overlooking the sea in Chernomorskaya, a quiet little street in the suburb of
Langeron, stood Dr Landesman's private nursing home for nervous diseases.
The incidence of nervous disorders had risen sharply in those anxious, uncertain
times, ...
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Contents
Whirlpool pagej 2 Blue Torches | 23 |
3 The Journalists Cafe | 56 |
4 The Hall with the Fountain | 58 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Translated by | Manya Harari |
| Publisher | Harvill Press, 1967 |
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