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Page 94
I felt I had never seen anything more beautiful in my life. The train dashed, full tilt,
into the station and swept dizzily through with a clanking of metal, a thrumming of
wheels and a hurricane of dust. It seemed that a little more, and all the people ...
I felt I had never seen anything more beautiful in my life. The train dashed, full tilt,
into the station and swept dizzily through with a clanking of metal, a thrumming of
wheels and a hurricane of dust. It seemed that a little more, and all the people ...
Page 105
I had a lump in my throat — I felt there was no more Russia and never would be
again, everything was lost and there was nothing to live for. The singer seemed
to guess my thoughts. 'My God! What has Russia come to nowadays! It's like
some ...
I had a lump in my throat — I felt there was no more Russia and never would be
again, everything was lost and there was nothing to live for. The singer seemed
to guess my thoughts. 'My God! What has Russia come to nowadays! It's like
some ...
Page 157
We were never allowed out into the town. In any case, no one was there to whom
we could report. And had there been someone, it would still have been useless
— we would never have been believed. We decided to write to the Government ...
We were never allowed out into the town. In any case, no one was there to whom
we could report. And had there been someone, it would still have been useless
— we would never have been believed. We decided to write to the Government ...
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Cafe | 36 |
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Bibliographic information
| 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, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
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