The Story of a Life, Volumes 1–3 PDF
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Discover one of Twentieth-Century Russia's most lauded lost classics, now in a remarakble new translation.
'Outstanding... A sparkling, supremely precious literary achievement' Telegraph
'One of the great Russian autobiographies, as fresh now as the day it was written - and the day it was lived' Julian Barnes
In 1943, Konstantin Paustovsky, the Soviet Union's most revered author, started out on his masterwork - The Story of a Life; a grand, novelistic memoir of a life lived on the fast-unfurling frontiers of Russian history. Eventually published over six volumes, it would cement Paustovsky's reputation as the voice of Russia around the world, and see him nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Newly translated by Guggenheim fellow Douglas Smith, Vintage Classics are proud to reintroduce the first three books of Paustovsky's epic for a whole new generation. Taking its reader from Paustovsky's Ukrainian...
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