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Page 41
his own dream of travelling round the world — clowning all the way, slapping
backs, offering snuff to cab-drivers in Paris and Negro kings on the banks of the
Zambesi — and returning to Moscow with such traveller's tales as would really
make ...
his own dream of travelling round the world — clowning all the way, slapping
backs, offering snuff to cab-drivers in Paris and Negro kings on the banks of the
Zambesi — and returning to Moscow with such traveller's tales as would really
make ...
Page 137
His round, closely cropped head shone with sweat. His grey Cossack moustache
drooped over his chin. He wore baggy grey pin-striped trousers, an equally
baggy tussore coat with bulging pockets, and an embroidered shirt fastened at
the ...
His round, closely cropped head shone with sweat. His grey Cossack moustache
drooped over his chin. He wore baggy grey pin-striped trousers, an equally
baggy tussore coat with bulging pockets, and an embroidered shirt fastened at
the ...
Page 196
A boater carried off by the wind wheeled round and round on the platform and
finally came to rest at the feet of the guard. It looked frivolous in spite of its
ominous black bow. The envy of all provincial Donjuans, it must until recently
have ...
A boater carried off by the wind wheeled round and round on the platform and
finally came to rest at the feet of the guard. It looked frivolous in spite of its
ominous black bow. The envy of all provincial Donjuans, it must until recently
have ...
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Cafe | 36 |
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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, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
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