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... night air , with its slight taste of gas , seemed to me to promise a change in my life , new travel , new experiences . LEFORTOVO NIGHTS Sparkling with arc lights and looking as if it had been melted down by their chalky , hissing light ...
... night air , with its slight taste of gas , seemed to me to promise a change in my life , new travel , new experiences . LEFORTOVO NIGHTS Sparkling with arc lights and looking as if it had been melted down by their chalky , hissing light ...
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... night . They pointed out an ancient inn , a wooden building full of chinks and smelling of kerosene and herring . The innkeeper , a little Jew with a shock of reddish - brown hair , told me that he had a place , of course , to spend the ...
... night . They pointed out an ancient inn , a wooden building full of chinks and smelling of kerosene and herring . The innkeeper , a little Jew with a shock of reddish - brown hair , told me that he had a place , of course , to spend the ...
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Константин Паустовский. flowers in blossom . In the middle of the night the sickle of a dying moon rose over Kiev and swam through a soundless Ukrainian night . To keep myself awake I was singing songs to myself . Sud- denly I heard a ...
Константин Паустовский. flowers in blossom . In the middle of the night the sickle of a dying moon rose over Kiev and swam through a soundless Ukrainian night . To keep myself awake I was singing songs to myself . Sud- denly I heard a ...
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The Death of My Father | 3 |
My Grandfather Maxim Grigorievich ΙΟ | 10 |
Carp | 16 |
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