The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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Konstantin Paustovsky. smile , like a tiny tear from her blind eyes , suspended in her lashes , so tiny that nobody would ever see it . I remained alone . Everyone had died . My mother who had given me life - a life not vain or useless ...
Konstantin Paustovsky. smile , like a tiny tear from her blind eyes , suspended in her lashes , so tiny that nobody would ever see it . I remained alone . Everyone had died . My mother who had given me life - a life not vain or useless ...
Page 106
... tiny rivulets of thawing snow were just beginning to trickle , I noticed the first snowdrop . Its white , diaphanous petals , crumpled after their winter sleep , were straightening themselves out in the sun , with an occasional shudder ...
... tiny rivulets of thawing snow were just beginning to trickle , I noticed the first snowdrop . Its white , diaphanous petals , crumpled after their winter sleep , were straightening themselves out in the sun , with an occasional shudder ...
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... tiny bit of cold air tightly sealed within it . There was a smell of pine all around me . Last year's dried - up berries which I had picked off a juniper tree also smelt of pine and of grouse feathers too - the wild smell of marshes and ...
... tiny bit of cold air tightly sealed within it . There was a smell of pine all around me . Last year's dried - up berries which I had picked off a juniper tree also smelt of pine and of grouse feathers too - the wild smell of marshes and ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
Copyright | |
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