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Page 198
... seemed to me then that the orchestra was playing for me alone , and for a young woman with the brim of her hat pulled down . I ran into her at nearly all the concerts . She used to stare at me . I followed her furtively . I caught her ...
... seemed to me then that the orchestra was playing for me alone , and for a young woman with the brim of her hat pulled down . I ran into her at nearly all the concerts . She used to stare at me . I followed her furtively . I caught her ...
Page 244
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page 318
... seemed , was shining through the windows . But it never seemed to me to shine for more than an hour or so before I had to light the white , blinding lights again . Once Pokrovsky took me by the arm , led me to the window , and forced me ...
... seemed , was shining through the windows . But it never seemed to me to shine for more than an hour or so before I had to light the white , blinding lights again . Once Pokrovsky took me by the arm , led me to the window , and forced me ...
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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