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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 .
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 .
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 !
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 !
Page 157
At any moment , Antoshchenko could shoot any one of us down . Each man's life hung on what he might take it into his head to do next . Every day , we waited for some new , humiliating scene , and he never ...
At any moment , Antoshchenko could shoot any one of us down . Each man's life hung on what he might take it into his head to do next . Every day , we waited for some new , humiliating scene , and he never ...
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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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