The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 24
... window , sat down on the window- sill - and there was the sky in front of me , looking as if washed with clear water . The clouds crowded in on one another from one end of the earth to the other . And as they swam along the sky's convex ...
... window , sat down on the window- sill - and there was the sky in front of me , looking as if washed with clear water . The clouds crowded in on one another from one end of the earth to the other . And as they swam along the sky's convex ...
Page 57
... window and shouted through cupped hands held at the window - pane that the frost had reached fantastic proportions and that his lungs ached . " There can be no question of your going to 57 Cold.
... window and shouted through cupped hands held at the window - pane that the frost had reached fantastic proportions and that his lungs ached . " There can be no question of your going to 57 Cold.
Page 201
... window in the corridor . The nurse was nowhere in sight . I knelt down in front of the window , stuck out an unbelievably thin , transparent arm and with the whole thin , bird - like skin of that arm I felt the splendour of the night ...
... window in the corridor . The nurse was nowhere in sight . I knelt down in front of the window , stuck out an unbelievably thin , transparent arm and with the whole thin , bird - like skin of that arm I felt the splendour of the night ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
Copyright | |
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