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Page 130
I did not imagine then that everything was finished, absolutely everything. It was
much later that I understood that life had taken away from me, for some unknown
reason, what might have been happiness. The next day Lisa and I went to ...
I did not imagine then that everything was finished, absolutely everything. It was
much later that I understood that life had taken away from me, for some unknown
reason, what might have been happiness. The next day Lisa and I went to ...
Page 244
It was so stifling at the bathhouse on the river that everything turned dark before
our eyes. We lay in the lukewarm water for a long time. The sky seemed filled
with smoke. Enormous black puffs moved behind it, like petrified cotton. These
were ...
It was so stifling at the bathhouse on the river that everything turned dark before
our eyes. We lay in the lukewarm water for a long time. The sky seemed filled
with smoke. Enormous black puffs moved behind it, like petrified cotton. These
were ...
Page 376
Everything grew dark, and I stopped. I wanted to quiet myself, and to collect my
thoughts. What thoughts? About what? I had no thoughts — nothing but despair.
At last I decided, pulled off the jacket, rolled up the sleeves of my shirt, took a ...
Everything grew dark, and I stopped. I wanted to quiet myself, and to collect my
thoughts. What thoughts? About what? I had no thoughts — nothing but despair.
At last I decided, pulled off the jacket, rolled up the sleeves of my shirt, took a ...
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Contents
The Death of My Father | 3 |
My Grandfather Maxim Grigorievich | 10 |
Carp | 16 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Story of a Life, Volume 1 The Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Константин Паустовский |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
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