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Page 229
I was pushed down into a chair at a table and urged to eat, but they forgot about
this right away and laughingly moved me and the table into a corner of the room
to clear a space for dancing. The young fellow played a waltz. Vrubel's 'Demon" ...
I was pushed down into a chair at a table and urged to eat, but they forgot about
this right away and laughingly moved me and the table into a corner of the room
to clear a space for dancing. The young fellow played a waltz. Vrubel's 'Demon" ...
Page 244
The sky seemed filled with smoke. Enormous black puffs moved behind it, like
petrified cotton. These were the storm clouds seen through the smoke. Dead
silence stood all around us. The frogs and the birds grew silent, fish stopped
splashing.
The sky seemed filled with smoke. Enormous black puffs moved behind it, like
petrified cotton. These were the storm clouds seen through the smoke. Dead
silence stood all around us. The frogs and the birds grew silent, fish stopped
splashing.
Page 456
Romanin wrote that the unit had been moved to Molodechno, near Minsk, that
there was little work, but that he was not planning to quit because he predicted
the coming of significant times (these words were underlined in the letter) and
that ...
Romanin wrote that the unit had been moved to Molodechno, near Minsk, that
there was little work, but that he was not planning to quit because he predicted
the coming of significant times (these words were underlined in the letter) and
that ...
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Contents
The Death of My Father | 3 |
Carp | 16 |
The Pink Oleanders | 29 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Story of a Life, Volume 2 |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Publisher | Vintage Books, 1967 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 23 Nov 2009 |
| Length | 661 pages |
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