In the World

01 CHAPTER I I WENT out into the world as “shop-boy” at a fashionable boot-shop in the

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02 CHAPTER II GRANDFATHER met me in the yard; he was on his knees, chopping a wedge

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03 CHAPTER III IMPERCEPTIBLY, like a little star at dawn, my brother Kolia faded away.

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04 CHAPTER IV ONCE more I was in the town, in a two-storied white house which reminded

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05 CHAPTER V HOWEVER, I did run away in the spring. One morning when I went to the shop

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06 CHAPTER VI AT Sarapulia, Maxim left the boat. He went away in silence, saying farewell to no

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07 CHAPTER VII GRANDFATHER and grandmother had again gone into the town. I went to

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08 CHAPTER VIII WHEN the snows came, grandfather once more took me to grandmother’s

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09 CHAPTER IX I HAVE sad and ludicrous reasons for remembering the burdensome

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10 CHAPTER X BEFORE the departure of the tailor’s wife there had come to live

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11 CHAPTER XI ONCE more I became a washer-up on a steamboat, the Perm, a boat as white

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12 CHAPTER XII LATE in the autumn, when the steamboat voyage finished, I went as pupil in

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13 CHAPTER XIII THE icon-painting workshop occupied two rooms in a large house partly built of

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14 CHAPTER XIV MY duties in the workshop were not complicated. In the morning when they

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15 CHAPTER XV THE snow melted away from the fields; the wintry clouds in the

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16 CHAPTER XVI I WAS in a boat with my master, passing along the market-place between shops

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17 CHAPTER XVII EVERY morning at six o’clock I set out tor my work in the market-place. I

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18 CHAPTER XVIII AS Yaakov, the stoker, had done in his time, so now Osip grew and grew in

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19 CHAPTER XIX THERE was hardly any work in the market-square during the winter, and

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20 CHAPTER XX I LIVED three years as overseer in that dead town, amid empty buildings,

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