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Page 124
... Mama again and I asked her to get rid of the moth . Mama pressed her lips close together , and she took off a tight , hot compress and covered me with blankets . I lost count of the nights , filled with rumblings I couldn't understand ...
... Mama again and I asked her to get rid of the moth . Mama pressed her lips close together , and she took off a tight , hot compress and covered me with blankets . I lost count of the nights , filled with rumblings I couldn't understand ...
Page 221
... Mama's box , an old bronze alarm clock , and a photograph of my father , taken when he was still young . The photograph hung on the wall over Mama's bed . Mama was upset because the dinner wasn't ready yet , and she went out to the ...
... Mama's box , an old bronze alarm clock , and a photograph of my father , taken when he was still young . The photograph hung on the wall over Mama's bed . Mama was upset because the dinner wasn't ready yet , and she went out to the ...
Page 407
... Mama's old habit of instructing people , as she put it , in " honorable and intelligent behavior " led her to write ... Mama and Galya might move to Kopan , but Mama never agreed because of her need to live with Galya and Dima in Moscow ...
... Mama's old habit of instructing people , as she put it , in " honorable and intelligent behavior " led her to write ... Mama and Galya might move to Kopan , but Mama never agreed because of her need to live with Galya and Dima in Moscow ...
Contents
The Death of My Father | 3 |
My Grandfather Maxim Grigorievich | 10 |
Carp | 16 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Story of a Life Volume 373 of A Vintage book The Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Publisher | Vintage Books, 1967 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 23 Nov 2009 |
| Length | 661 pages |
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