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My room was on the first floor and its windows faced the chemist's . I give all these details because they help to explain the unusual events described below . One autumn night , grey with mist and frost , I woke up feeling as if all ...
My room was on the first floor and its windows faced the chemist's . I give all these details because they help to explain the unusual events described below . One autumn night , grey with mist and frost , I woke up feeling as if all ...
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and liqueurs on the floor . Swimming in the pools were hard pickled mushrooms covered with a reddish film , their big earthenware container smashed . I pulled down some sausages , stacked them like logs and put a thick Dutch cheese as ...
and liqueurs on the floor . Swimming in the pools were hard pickled mushrooms covered with a reddish film , their big earthenware container smashed . I pulled down some sausages , stacked them like logs and put a thick Dutch cheese as ...
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I remained on the floor . The firing increased . I realised that the flame of my match , seen through the window , had served as a signal to Red Army men who had quietly surrounded the house . Most of the shots were aimed at the room in ...
I remained on the floor . The firing increased . I realised that the flame of my match , seen through the window , had served as a signal to Red Army men who had quietly surrounded the house . Most of the shots were aimed at the room in ...
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of The Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 661 pages |
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