The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 19
... face . The silence of the fields , untouched by a single sound apart from the distant hoot of the departing train , enveloped me . I stood for a while under the old elms on the platform and sniffed the long - forgotten smell of tar ...
... face . The silence of the fields , untouched by a single sound apart from the distant hoot of the departing train , enveloped me . I stood for a while under the old elms on the platform and sniffed the long - forgotten smell of tar ...
Page 95
... face to face with the man I thought of as a sorcerer and a sage . He seemed to exude the smell of thawing water in a wood of angelica's pungent juice , of rotten leaves and branches in a forest , of twilight over marshes . He was always ...
... face to face with the man I thought of as a sorcerer and a sage . He seemed to exude the smell of thawing water in a wood of angelica's pungent juice , of rotten leaves and branches in a forest , of twilight over marshes . He was always ...
Page 103
... face was bathed in tears . They had not yet had time to dry . His face expressed so much childish grief that no one could look at that photograph . All turned away their heads , and departed , averting their eyes . - I owe a lot to ...
... face was bathed in tears . They had not yet had time to dry . His face expressed so much childish grief that no one could look at that photograph . All turned away their heads , and departed , averting their eyes . - I owe a lot to ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
Copyright | |
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